The Genetic Basis of Alcoholism: Multiple Phenotypes, Many Genes, Complex Networks

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2012 Feb 22

PMID 22348705

Citations 28

Authors

Tatiana V Morozova

David Goldman

Trudy F C Mackay

Robert R H Anholt

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Abstract

Alcoholism is a significant public health problem. A picture of the genetic architecture underlying alcohol-related phenotypes is emerging from genome-wide association studies and work on genetically tractable model organisms.

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