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The genetic basis of alcoholism: multiple phenotypes, many genes, complex networks
Tatiana V Morozova1, David Goldman, Trudy F C Mackay
1Department of Biology, Box 7617, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
Genome Biology
|February 22, 2012
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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