Functional variation in promoter region of Monoamine oxidase A and subtypes of alcoholism: Haplotype analysis

American Journal of Medical Genetics - Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Volumn 117 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-50

  Parsian, Abbas ^a   Cloninger, C Robert ^b   Sinha, Rashmi ^a   Zhang, Zhen Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Association; Functional variation; Haplotype; Monoamine oxidase A

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAO A GENE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

GYMNOMYZA SAMOENSIS;

EID: 0041821991     PISSN: 15524841     EISSN: 1552485X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.10017     Document Type: Article

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