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SUBMITTER: Sullivan PF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2258277 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sullivan Patrick F PF Kuo Po-Hsiu PH Webb B Todd BT Neale Michael C MC Vittum Jen J Furberg Helena H Walsh Dermot D Patterson Diana G DG Riley Brien B Prescott Carol A CA Kendler Kenneth S KS
Drug and alcohol dependence 20071119 3
<h4>Background</h4>A comprehensive understanding of the etiology and neurobiology of nicotine dependence is not available. We sought to identify genomic regions that might contain etiologically-relevant loci using genomewide univariate and bivariate linkage analyses.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted secondary data analyses of 626 all possible sibling pairs ascertained in Ireland and Northern Ireland on the basis of alcohol dependence. A set of 1020 short tandem repeat genetic markers were genotyped i ...[more]