Boris Tabakoff1
, Laura Saba1
, Morton Printz2
, Pam Flodman3
, Colin Hodgkinson4
, David Goldman4
, George Koob5
, Heather N Richardson5,16
, Katerina Kechris6
, Richard L Bell7
, Norbert Hübner8
, Matthias Heinig8
, Michal Pravenec9
, Jonathan Mangion10,17
, Lucie Legault11
, Maurice Dongier11
, Katherine M Conigrave12
, John B Whitfield13
, John Saunders14
, Bridget Grant15
, Paula L Hoffman1
and WHO/ISBRA Study on State and Trait Markers of Alcoholism 
1Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
2Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
4Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
5Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
6Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
7Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
8Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
9Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
10MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, London, UK
11Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12Drug Health Services, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
14School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
15Division of Epidemiology, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD, USA
16Department Psychology-Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
17Applied Biosystems, Lingley House, 120 Birchwood Blvd., Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 7QH, UK