Predominant influence of the 3'-region of dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) on the clinical phenotype in German alcoholics

Pharmacogenetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 471-475

  Samochowiec, Jerzy ^a   Ladehoff, Murat ^c   Pelz, Jörg ^c   Smolka, Michael ^c   Schmidt, Lutz G ^c   Rommelspacher, Hans ^c   Finckh, Ulrich ^b  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c Institut für Humangenetik ^*

Author keywords

141C polymorphism; Alcoholism; Anxiety; Apomorphine; Depressiveness; Dopamine D2 receptor; DRD2; Exon 8; Linkage disequilibria; Promoter; Suicide

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALCOHOLISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2;

EID: 0033946519     PISSN: 0960314X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008571-200007000-00010     Document Type: Article

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