DRD2 and alcohol dependence: For example, the early candidate gene for alcoholism DRD2 (dopamine type 2 receptor) [81] was linked through several SNPs to state and trait levels of anxiety in a Korean sample of AD patients (n = 573) by Joe et al. in 2008 [82], only to be confirmed as a genome-wide significant locus for shared vulnerability to both alcoholism and BPD (Levey et al. 2014 [51] and anxiety disorder-problem alcohol use (Colbert et al. 2020 [74]).