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A gene-by-sex interaction for nicotine reward: evidence from humanized mice and epidemiology.
Translational psychiatry - 26 Jul 2016
Bernardi R E, Zohsel K, Hirth N, Treutlein J, Heilig M, Laucht M, Spanagel R, Sommer W H
Abstract excerpt
It has been proposed that vulnerability to nicotine addiction is moderated by variation at the μ-opioid receptor locus (OPRM1), but results from human studies vary and prospective studies based on genotype are lacking. We have developed a humanized mouse model of the most common functional OPRM1 polymorphism rs1799971_A>G (A118G). Here we use this model system together with a cohort of German youth to examine the...
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