Genetic variations in the dopaminergic system and alcohol use: A system-level analysis

Addiction Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-489

  Chen, Chunhui ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^b   Moyzis, Robert ^b   He, Qinghua ^a   Li, He ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Zhu, Bi ^a   Lessard, Jared ^b   Stern, Hal ^c   Dong, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; dopamine genes; heritability; permutation; polygenetics; regression

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DOPAMINE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857648488     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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