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A Review and Hypothesis

Donald W. Goodwin, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1979;36(1):57-61.

Abstract
• Recent evidence for a hereditary factor in alcoholism is reviewed, followed by speculation about how genetic variation combined with conditioning might promote or prevent the development of alcoholism. "Familial alcoholism" may be valuable as a diagnostic category.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 12, 1978.

Read before the Scientific Symposium honoring Eli Robins, MD, St Louis, May 1977.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Kansas University Medical Center, 39th and Rainbow, Kansas City, KS 66103 (Dr Goodwin).

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