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SUBMITTER: Wetherill L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726116 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wetherill Leah L Lai Dongbing D Johnson Emma C EC Anokhin Andrey A Bauer Lance L Bucholz Kathleen K KK Dick Danielle M DM Hariri Ahmad R AR Hesselbrock Victor V Kamarajan Chella C Kramer John J Kuperman Samuel S Meyers Jacquelyn L JL Nurnberger John I JI Schuckit Marc M Scott Denise M DM Taylor Robert E RE Tischfield Jay J Porjesz Bernice B Goate Alison M AM Edenberg Howard J HJ Foroud Tatiana T Bogdan Ryan R Agrawal Arpana A
Genes, brain, and behavior 20190611 6
Genetic influences on alcohol and drug dependence partially overlap, however, specific loci underlying this overlap remain unclear. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of a phenotype representing alcohol or illicit drug dependence (ANYDEP) among 7291 European-Americans (EA; 2927 cases) and 3132 African-Americans (AA: 1315 cases) participating in the family-based Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism. ANYDEP was heritable (h <sup>2</sup> in EA = 0.60, AA = 0.37). The A ...[more]