Interaction of genetic variation at ADH1B and MLXIPL with alcohol consumption for elevated serum urate level and gout among people of European ethnicity.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe North West Multi-Centre Research Ethics Committee (REC) granted ethical approval for the UK Biobank (REC reference: 16/NW/0274). All participants provided broad written consent for the use of their anonymised data in any health-related research. This study was approved under application number 12611 and complied with all ethical regulations. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsND has received consulting fees, speaker fees, or grants from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Horizon, Selecta, Arthrosi, JW Pharmaceutical Corporation, PK Med, LG Chem, JPI, PTC Therapeutics, Protalix, Unlocked Labs, Hikma, outside the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicting interests to report. Competing interests ND has received consulting fees, speaker fees, or grants from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Horizon, Selecta, Arthrosi, JW Pharmaceutical Corporation, PK Med, LG Chem, JPI, PTC Therapeutics, Protalix, Unlocked Labs, Hikma, outside the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicting interests to report."

"Funding This work was funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand."