Nature

Genomewide linkage study in the Irish affected sib pair study of alcohol dependence: evidence for a susceptibility region for symptoms of alcohol dependence on chromosome 4

Alcoholism is a chronic, disabling and often treatment-resistant disorder with an estimated lifetime prevalence in the US of 19% in men and 8% in women. 1 Family, twin and adoption studies provide ...
Nature

Genome-wide linkage scan for nicotine dependence in European Americans and its converging results with African Americans in the Mid-South Tobacco Family sample

Previously, we reported a genome-wide scan for nicotine dependence (ND) in the African American (AA) sample of the Mid-South Tobacco Family (MSTF) cohort. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide ...