Genetic disposition to addictive disorders--current knowledge and future perspectives.

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It is well established that addictive disorders have a strong genetic background. Multiple, and in part interacting, genes are likely to be responsible for the disease phenotype, making the search for underlying alleles a challenging and complicated task. Linkage analyses and association studies have failed to unequivocally identify underlying genes. Conversely, genome sequencing and the systematic search for...

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