Genetics and drug use as a complex phenotype.

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Drug use is a complex behavior influenced by multiple biological, family, and sociocultural factors. The concurrent use/misuse of multiple drugs is often seen and drug use also co-occurs with other psychiatric conditions. Behavior and molecular genetic studies support an important posited role of genes in drug use. This posited genetic risk does not appear to be conferred by one or two major genes manifesting...

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