Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 131-139 , March 2010

Early onset alcohol dependence with high density of family history is not “male limited”

  • Åsa Magnusson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Mona Göransson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Markus Heilig

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD 20892-1610, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 10 Center Drive, 10/1E-5334, Bethesda, MD 20892-1610, USA. Tel.: +1-301-435-9386; fax: +1-301-451-7498.

Received 27 August 2009 ,Revised 18 January 2010 ,Accepted 18 January 2010.

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Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 2 , Pages 131-139 , March 2010

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