Genetics,systems, and alcohol |
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Authors: | Gerald E. McClearn |
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Affiliation: | (1) Center for Developmental and Health Genetics and Program in Biobehavioral Health, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 16802 University Park, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | Under a variety of rubrics (e.g., complexity, self-constructing systems, dissipative structures), interest has recently burgeoned in applying principles of complex systems to a wide variety of scientific issues. A major concern is with emergent properties of systems not derivable from the properties of components of the systems. In this paper, some elementary aspects of systems considerations are applied to phenomena of alcohol pharmacogenetics. It is likely that whole new families of informative phenotypes can be generated by this approach. |
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Keywords: | Alcohol systems complexity causation hierarchies regulation |
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