Genetic variants in the cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript gene (CARTPT) and cocaine dependence

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 440, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-283

  Lohoff, Falk W ^a   Bloch, Paul J ^a   Weller, Andrew E ^a   Nall, Aleksandra H ^a   Doyle, Glenn A ^a   Buono, Russell J ^b   Ferraro, Thomas N ^a   Kampman, Kyle M ^a   Pettinati, Helen M ^a   Dackis, Charles A ^a   Oslin, David W ^a   O'Brien, Charles P ^a   Berrettini, Wade H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Association study; Cocaine; Genetics; Haplotype; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 45849129768     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.073     Document Type: Article

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