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Alcohol Use
Genome study may help identify people most at risk for alcoholism
September 20th, 2006
Researchers at the Molecular Neurobiology Branch of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), have completed the most comprehensive scan of the human genome to date linked to the ongoing efforts to identify people most at risk for developing alcoholism. This study represents the first time the new genomic technology has been used to comprehensively identify genes linked to substance abuse. The study can be viewed online and is published in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B (Neuropsychiatric Genetics). "Tools such as pooled data genome scanning give us a completely new way of looking...
Source: Biotech Week (2006-09-20)
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