Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00034-y Abstract Genetic liability to substance use disorders can be parsed into loci that confer general or substance-specific addiction risk. We report a multivariate genome-wide association meta-analysis that disaggregates general and substance...

Source: Pasman, J. A., Verweij, K., Gerring, Z., Stringer, S., Sanchez-Roige, S., Treur, J. L., Abdellaoui, A., Nivard, M. G., Baselmans, B., Ong, J. S., Ip, H. F., van der Zee, M. D., Bartels, M., Day, F. R., Fontanillas, P., Elson, S. L., 23andMe Research Team, de Wit, H., Davis, L. K., MacKillop...

Source: Vicky Ping Chen, Yang Gao, Liyi Geng, Mike Steele, Nathan Jenks, Kah-Whye Peng, and Stephen Brimijoin.Human Gene Therapy.ahead of printhttp://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2019.233 Abstract Cocaine addiction continues to impose major burdens on affected individuals and broader society but is highly...

One of the key questions that researchers in the field of neuropsychiatry are trying to answer is why some people are more vulnerable to addiction. As in most cases of psychiatric disorders, genetic and environmental factors interact to determine how vulnerable, or likely, you are to developing a...