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Chunk #7 — Introduction

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Genome-wide association study of alcohol consumption and use disorder in 274,424 individuals from multiple populations.
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which we construct Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) for both traits and show that they are associated with alcohol-related disorders in two independent samples. The availability of data on alcohol consumption from the AUDIT-C and a formal diagnosis of AUD from the EHR enables us to examine the relationship between these key alcohol-related traits in a single, well-phenotyped sample and to compare the findings for these traits more systematically than has previously been possible.