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Genetics and biological markers of risk for alcoholism.
  • Published Date:

    1988 Nov-Dec

  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 103(6):690-698
  • Language:
    English
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    Substantial scientific evidence has accumulated that both genetic and environmental factors predispose the development of alcoholism in certain individuals. Evidence has accumulated to indicate that alcoholism is a heterogeneous entity arising from multiple etiologies. The demonstrated role of genetics in increasing the risk of alcoholism has promoted the search for biological markers that could objectively identify individuals who are genetically predisposed to alcoholism. Identifying such markers could allow for early diagnosis, focused prevention, and differential and type-specific treatment of alcoholism. Promising markers have been provided by research in electrophysiology, endocrinology, and biochemistry. Recent advances in molecular genetics are offering prospects for direct analysis of the human genome to determine elements that provide predisposition to, and protection from, alcoholism. Recent advances in research and new knowledge gained by the alcoholism treatment community and the lay public are helping to diminish the societal damage caused by alcohol abuse and alcoholism and to change prevailing attitudes about them.
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    1. Personal Author:
      Warren, K R ; Bast, R J ;
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):638-642
      Description:
      Historically, mankind has at least suspected that alcohol was somehow connected with undesirable effects on progeny. In the 18th century, physicians b...
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    2. Personal Author:
      Gordis, E
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):575-577
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    3. Published Date:
      Nov-Dec 1988
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6)
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      Index and masthead
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    4. Published Date:
      Nov-Dec 1988
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6)
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    5. Personal Author:
      Hingson, R W ; Howland, J ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):659-667
      Description:
      From 1980 through 1985, considerable progress was made across the Nation in reducing drunken driving and fatal automobile crashes. More than 400 chapt...
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    6. Published Date:
      Nov 1988
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):713-714
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    7. Personal Author:
      Roman, P M
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):628-637
      Description:
      Sensitivity to gender issues in the research community has generated a modest but growing amount of data on the biological effects of alcohol consumpt...
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    8. Personal Author:
      Allen, J P ; Eckardt, M J ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):586-592
      Description:
      Alcoholism is an often overlooked health problem because alcoholics usually do not seek treatment for their drinking problems. They do, however, seek ...
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    9. Personal Author:
      Butynski, W ; Canova, D M ;
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):611-620
      Description:
      During fiscal year 1987, expenditures for alcohol and drug abuse services in facilities receiving at least some funds from State alcohol and drug agen...
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    10. Personal Author:
      Bowen, O R
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):559-563
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    11. Personal Author:
      Williams, G D ; Grant, B F ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):592-597
      Description:
      Two major trends regarding alcohol use and consequences of alcohol abuse in the United States are showing significant improvement. Continued declines ...
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    12. Personal Author:
      Burke, T R
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):564-568
      Description:
      The economic effects of alcohol abuse are as damaging to the nation as the health effects, affecting the family, the community, and persons of all age...
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    13. Personal Author:
      Brady, J V
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):699-707
      Description:
      An empirical biobehavioral research approach to the conditions generally identified as alcohol abuse and alcoholism emphasizes the temporal ordering o...
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    14. Personal Author:
      Welte, J W ; Abel, E L ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):648-652
      Description:
      A discriminant analysis of the 806 suicide victims in Erie County, NY, from 1972-84, compared those with alcohol in the blood to those without. Thirty...
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    15. Personal Author:
      Johnson, E M ; Amatetti, S ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):578-586
      Description:
      The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration's Office for Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP) was established to initiate programs to provi...
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    16. Personal Author:
      Woodside, M
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
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      Public Health Rep. 103(6):643-648
      Description:
      There are 28 million children of alcoholics in the United States--1 of every 8 Americans. They are more likely than others to suffer from alcoholism a...
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    17. Personal Author:
      Towle, L H ; Stinson, F S ; ...
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):597-605
      Description:
      It is well known that alcohol abuse is significantly involved in the incidence of casualties (that is, accidents and injuries as they are defined for ...
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    18. Personal Author:
      Straus, R
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):707-712
      Description:
      The nature of alcohol problems, knowledge about alcohol use and abuse, and public perceptions and responses have all undergone substantial change duri...
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    19. Personal Author:
      Engs, R C ; Hanson, D J ;
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):667-673
      Description:
      An extensive review of the literature on college students' drinking patterns and problems since the mid-1930s revealed no radical changes over the pas...
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    20. Personal Author:
      Wallen, J
      Published Date:
      1988 Nov-Dec
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 103(6):605-611
      Description:
      This article examines the role of health services research in alcoholism treatment. Alcoholism services research has only recently emerged as a self-d...
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