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Replication of ZNF804A gene variant associations with risk of heroin addiction.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Nov 2015
Hancock D B, Levy J L, Gaddis N C, Glasheen C, Saccone N L, Page G P, Bierut L J, Kral A H, Johnson E O
Abstract excerpt
Heroin addiction is heritable, but few specific genetic variants have been reproducibly associated with this disease. The zinc finger protein 804A (ZNF804A) gene is a biologically plausible susceptibility gene for heroin addiction, given its function as a transcription factor in human brain. Novel associations of two common ZNF804A single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), rs7597593 and rs1344706, with heroin...
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