Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use in 435,563 individuals yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits

H Zhou, JM Sealock, S Sanchez-Roige, TK Clarke… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide.
Although genome-wide association studies have identified PAU risk genes, the genetic …

Genome-wide association study of maximum habitual alcohol intake in> 140,000 US European and African American veterans yields novel risk loci

J Gelernter, N Sun, R Polimanti, RH Pietrzak… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Habitual alcohol use can be an indicator of alcohol dependence, which is
associated with a wide range of serious health problems. Methods We completed a genome …

Genome-wide investigation of maximum habitual alcohol intake in US veterans in relation to alcohol consumption traits and alcohol use disorder

JD Deak, DF Levey, FR Wendt, H Zhou… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Alcohol genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have generally focused on
alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder (AUD); few have examined habitual drinking …

Predicting risk for Alcohol Use Disorder using longitudinal data with multimodal biomarkers and family history: a machine learning study

S Kinreich, JL Meyers, A Maron-Katz… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Predictive models have succeeded in distinguishing between individuals with Alcohol use
Disorder (AUD) and controls. However, predictive models identifying who is prone to …

Genetics of alcohol dependence

J Gelernter, HR Kranzler - Human genetics, 2009 - Springer
Alcohol dependence (AD), a genetically influenced phenotype, is extremely costly to
individuals and to society in the United States and throughout the world, contributing to …

A genome-wide association study of alcohol-dependence symptom counts in extended pedigrees identifies C15orf53

JC Wang, T Foroud, AL Hinrichs, NXH Le… - Molecular …, 2013 - nature.com
Several studies have identified genes associated with alcohol-use disorders (AUDs), but the
variation in each of these genes explains only a small portion of the genetic vulnerability …

Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence: significant findings in African-and European-Americans including novel risk loci

J Gelernter, HR Kranzler, R Sherva, L Almasy… - Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
We report a GWAS of alcohol dependence (AD) in European-American (EA) and African-
American (AA) populations, with replication in independent samples of EAs, AAs and …

Genetic studies of alcohol dependence in the context of the addiction cycle

MT Reilly, A Noronha, D Goldman, GF Koob - Neuropharmacology, 2017 - Elsevier
Family, twin and adoption studies demonstrate clearly that alcohol dependence and alcohol
use disorders are phenotypically complex and heritable. The heritability of alcohol use …

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

H Zhou, RL Kember, JD Deak, H Xu, S Toikumo… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Problematic alcohol use (PAU), a trait that combines alcohol use disorder and alcohol-
related problems assessed with a questionnaire, is a leading cause of death and morbidity …

Pooled association genome scanning for alcohol dependence using 104,268 SNPs: validation and use to identify alcoholism vulnerability loci in unrelated individuals …

C Johnson, T Drgon, QR Liu, D Walther… - American Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Association genome scanning can identify markers for the allelic variants that contribute to
vulnerability to complex disorders, including alcohol dependence. To improve the power …