Is Alcoholism Genetic Or Hereditary?

The strongest and most consistent findings for GWAS for AUD are for alcohol metabolizing genes, as in a recent study in an East Asian (Korean) sample of alcoholics in which ALDH2 and ADH1B showed up as GWAS signals with genome-wide significance 68. Subsequent analysis showed that AUTS2 was implicated in alcohol consumption in mice and […]

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