A Candidate Gene Association Study of Alcohol Consumption in Young Women

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 550-558

  Agrawal, Arpana ^a   Lynskey, Michael T ^a   Todorov, Alexandre A ^a   Schrage, Andrew J ^a   Littlefield, Andrew K ^b   Grant, Julia D ^a   Zhu, Qin ^a   Nelson, Elliot C ^a   Madden, Pamela A F ^a   Bucholz, Kathleen K ^a   Sher, Kenneth J ^a,b   Heath, Andrew C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Consumption; Genes; QTDT

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2;

ADH1A1 GENE; ADH1B GENE; ADH1C GENE; ADH7 GENE; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DDC GENE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TPH2 GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951907566     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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