Genetic analysis of personality traits and alcoholism using a mixed discrete continuous trait variance component model

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Czerwinski, Stefan A ^a   Mahaney, Michael C ^a   Williams, Jeff T ^a   Almasy, Laura ^a   Blangero, John ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Linkage; Novelty seeking; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032710592     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.1370170721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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