The heritability of alcoholism symptoms: 'Indicators of genetic and environmental influence in alcohol-dependent individuals' revisited

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 759-769

  Slutske, Wendy S ^a   True, William R ^c   Scherrer, Jeffrey F ^c   Heath, Andrew C ^b   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^b   Eisen, Seth A ^c   Goldberg, Jack ^d,e   Lyons, Michael J ^c   Tsuang, Ming T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Epidemiology ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism Symptoms; Genetics; Reliability; Twins; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOPTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TWINS;

EID: 0033060056     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04181.x     Document Type: Article

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