Is there a genetic relationship between alcoholism and depression? - Research Update

Alcohol Research & Health, Fall, 2002 by John I. Nurnberger, Jr., Tatiana Foroud, Leah Flury, Eric Meyer, T., Ryan Wiegand

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We acknowledge administrative support for the COGA project and these analyses from Henri Begleiter, M.D.; Ingrid Schmidt, at the State University of New York, Brooklyn; and Ting-Kai Li, M.D., at Indiana University.

COGA involves nine different centers across the United States where data collection, analysis, and/or storage take place. The principal investigator of COGA is H. Begleiter, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn. T. Reich, Washington University, is co-principal investigator. The study sites and their principal investigators and co-investigators are: Indiana University (T K. Li; J. Nurnberger, Jr.; P.M. Conneally; H. Edenberg); University of Iowa (R. Crowe, S. Kuperman); University of California at San Diego (M. Schuckit); University of Connecticut (V. Hesselbrock); State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn (B. Porjesz, H. Begleiter); Washington University in St. Louis (T. Reich, C.R. Cloninger, J. Rice, A. Goate); Howard University (R. Taylor); Rutgers University (J. Tischfield); and Southwest Foundation (L. Almasy).

(1) A centi-Morgan is a unit of measurement for distances along chromosomes. The largest human chromosome, chromosome 1, has a length of approximately 325 centi-Morgan. One can also express the location of markers as their distance in centi-Morgan from the tip of the chromosome.

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