Citation

Hill SY, Goodwin DW, Cadoret R, Osterland CK, Doner SM. J. Stud. Alcohol 1975; 36(7): 981-992.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

51135

Abstract

Sera from alcoholics and their nonalcoholic first-degree relatives were analyzed for 11 serological markers. A lower prevalence of the S antigen in the nonalcoholic relatives and linkage in repulsion between the D gene of the Rh system and alcoholism were found. All the alcoholics and the relatives had an SS phenotype, when analyzed for complement C3, compared with a prevalence rate of about 50% in other studies. The first two associations involve blood groups, the latter a serum protein.

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