Validating Harmful Alcohol Use as a Phenotype for Genetic Discovery Using Phosphatidylethanol and a Polymorphism in ADH1B
Justice AC, McGinnis KA, Tate JP, Xu K, Becker WC, Zhao H, Gelernter J, Kranzler HR. Validating Harmful Alcohol Use as a Phenotype for Genetic Discovery Using Phosphatidylethanol and a Polymorphism in ADH1B. Alcohol Clinical And Experimental Research 2017, 41: 998-1003. PMID: 28295416, PMCID: PMC5501250, DOI: 10.1111/acer.13373.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHarmful alcohol useAlcohol exposureAlcohol useElectronic health record dataEHR dataAUDIT-C scoresHealth record dataLongitudinal electronic health record dataLongitudinal trajectoriesChi-square testEHR-derived phenotypesStudy cohortBlood drawCommon missense polymorphismGenetic risk variantsBlood samplingMissense polymorphismAlcohol riskQuantitative biomarkersRecord dataMedianRisk variantsOverall sampleAfrican AmericansADH1B gene