title: A gene for alcohol toxicity, not drinking behavior.
abstract: Apparently contradictory results concerning association of an allele of a human dopamine receptor gene with alcoholism are explained by the gene's being involved with ethanol toxicity, not drinking behavior.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000235:genetics*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics*; D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D000431:Ethanol / Q000633:toxicity*; D005796:Genes; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol