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CHRNA5 variants moderate the effect of nicotine deprivation on a neural index of cognitive control.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Sept 2014
Evans D E, MacQueen D A, Jentink K G, Park J Y, Lin H-Y, Drobes D J
Abstract excerpt
Individuals with reduced attention and memory cognitive control-related processes may be motivated to smoke as a result of the cognitive enhancing effects of nicotine. Further, nicotine deprivation-induced reductions in cognitive control may negatively reinforce smoking. Minor allele carriers at rs16969968 in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α5 subunit gene (CHRNA5) have been shown to exhibit both reduced...
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