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Genome-Wide Association of Heroin Dependence in Han Chinese.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Kalsi Gursharan, Euesden Jack, Coleman Jonathan R I, Ducci Francesca, Aliev Fazil, Newhouse Stephen J, Liu Xiehe, Ma Xiaohong, Wang Yingcheng, Collier David A, Asherson Philip, Li Tao, Breen Gerome
Abstract excerpt
Drug addiction is a costly and recurring healthcare problem, necessitating a need to understand risk factors and mechanisms of addiction, and to identify new biomarkers. To date, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for heroin addiction have been limited; moreover they have been restricted to examining samples of European and African-American origin due to difficulty of recruiting samples from other...
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