Title : Fibrosis progression in HCV carriers with mild hepatitis who possess the high-repetition variant of the DRD4 gene, a genetic marker for binge-drinking and risk-seeking behavior: a longitudinal study.

Pub. Date : 2013 Jun

PMID : 23298155






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1 We hypothesized that carriage of high-repetition variants (HRV) of the variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) in exon III of the dopamine receptor D4 gene, linked to binge-drinking and risk-seeking behavior, might be a proxy measure of alcohol consumption, and aimed to verify whether it may affect histologic outcome. Alcohols dopamine receptor D4 Homo sapiens