Association of a functional ?-opioid rec
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Town, Terrence; Abdullah, Laila; Crawford, Fiona; Schinka, John; Ordorica, Patri
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Genetic association studies have implicated the TaqI A1 allele of the human dopamine D2 receptor gene (DRD2) as a riskdetermining factor for alcohol dependency. However, as alcoholism is a disease of polygenic inheritance, the percentage of overall disease variance explained by the TaqI A1 allele is