Alcoholism
Data from Washington University, Medical Department advance knowledge in alcoholism
Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, December 6th, 2009
"Previous research has reported a significant genetic correlation between heaviness of alcohol consumption and alcohol dependence (AD), but this association might be driven by the influence of AD on consumption rather than the reverse. We test the genetic overlap between AD symptoms and a heaviness of consumption measure among individuals who do not have AD," investigators in the United States report.
"A high genetic correlation between these measures would suggest that a continuous measure of consumption may have a useful role in the discovery of genes contributing to dependence risk. Factor analysis of five alcohol use measures was used to create a measure of...
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