Abstract Aims Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a chronic psychiatric illness characterized by
harmful drinking patterns leading to negative emotional, physical, and social ramifications …

Background Alcohol dependence (AD) is a complex psychiatric disorder and a significant
public health problem. Twin and family‐based studies have consistently estimated its …

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 …

We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for cocaine dependence (CD) in three
sets of African-and European-American subjects (AAs and EAs, respectively) to identify …

Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are commonly occurring, heritable and polygenic disorders
with etiological origins in the brain and the environment. To outline the causes and …

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) of alcohol dependence (AD) have reliably
identified variation within alcohol metabolizing genes (eg, ADH1B) but have inconsistently …

In this project, we aimed to bring large-scale gene-identification findings into a
developmental psychopathology framework. Using a family-based sample, we tested …

Autism imposes a major impediment to childhood development and a huge emotional and
financial burden on society. In recent years, there has been rapidly accumulating genetic …

The chronic high-level alcohol consumption seen in alcoholism leads to dramatic effects on
the hippocampus, including decreased white matter, loss of oligodendrocytes and other glial …

Alcohol dependence (AD) is a moderately heritable phenotype with a small number of
known risk genes mapped via linkage or candidate gene studies. We considered 313 males …