Alcohol consumption indices of genetic risk for alcohol dependence

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 795-800

  Grant, Julia D ^a   Agrawal, Arpana ^a   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^a   Madden, Pamela A F ^a   Pergadia, Michele L ^a   Nelson, Elliot C ^a   Lynskey, Michael T ^a   Todd, Richard D ^a   Todorov, Alexandre A ^a   Hansell, Narelle K ^b   Whitfield, John B ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   Heath, Andrew C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Gene identification; Genetic overlap; Heaviness of consumption; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPOUSE; TWINS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; DISEASES IN TWINS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX FACTORS; SPOUSES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 71949107035     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.05.018     Document Type: Article

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