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Pharmacogenetics of alcohol and alcohol dependence treatment.
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2010
Kranzler Henry R, Edenberg Howard J
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In this article, we review studies of genetic moderators of the response to medications to treat alcohol dependence, the acute response to alcohol, and the response to the psychotherapeutic treatment of heavy drinking. We consider four neurotransmitter systems: opioidergic, dopaminergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic and focus on one receptor protein in each: OPRM1 (the &#micro;-opioid receptor gene), DRD4 (the...
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