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Alcoholism: Is It Hereditary?
The kind of clear-cut model of the genetic sources of alcoholism
perceived by the public and presented in popular tracts does not
accurately reflect the state of knowledge in this area. No persuasive
genetic mechanism has been proposed to account for accumulated data about
alcoholic behavior, social differences in alcoholism rates or the
unfolding of the disease. Biological find ....
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.... for drunken
behavior. The major purpose for this research was the adoption studies
conducted in Scandinavia in the 1970’s which found reliable genetic, but
not adoptive transmission of alcoholism. This contemporary research
focuses on the offspring of alcoholics and on the biochemical or
neurological abnormalities they inherit that may lead to pathological
drinking. Or, alternatively, investigations may focus on a configuration
of personality traits centering on impuls ....
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