Genetic evidence for assortative mating on alcohol consumption in the UK Biobank

From observational studies, alcohol consumption behaviours are known to be correlated in spouses. Here, Howe et al. use partners’ genotypic information in a Mendelian randomization framework and show that a SNP in the ADH1B gene associates with partner’s alcohol consumption, suggesting that alcohol...

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Main Authors: Laurence J. Howe, Daniel J. Lawson, Neil M. Davies, Beate St. Pourcain, Sarah J. Lewis, George Davey Smith, Gibran Hemani
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e289036b88c44e5ca3eccce92a91e141
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