Genome-wide association studies of alcohol dependence and substance use disorders

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-155

  Treutlein, Jens ^a   Rietschel, Marcella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcohol; Genome wide association study; GWAS; Heroin; Methamphetamine; Nicotine; Smoking; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE 1C; BINDING PROTEIN; CADHERIN; CADHERIN 13; CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYSTEINE TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE; DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 27; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY PROTEIN 1; NUCLEOSOME ASSEMBLY PROTEIN 1 LIKE 4; OXYSTEROL BINDING PROTEIN RELATED PROTEIN 5; PEROXISOMAL TRANS 2 ENOYL COA REDUCTASE; PLECKSTRIN HOMOLOGY LIKE DOMAIN FAMILY A MEMBER 2; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3E; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 22 MEMBER 18; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN REGION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 79955886271     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-011-0176-4     Document Type: Review

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