Alcohol-Psychotherapy Outcomes May Be Moderated By GABRA2 Genotype

While both environmental and genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing alcohol dependence, it is believed to be a largely heritable — 52 to 64 percent — disease. Previous research had found a significant association between risk for alcoholism and DNA sequence variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the GABRA2 gene. [click link for full article]

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