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A brief review of the genetics and pharmacogenetics of opioid use disorders.
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Sept 2017
Berrettini Wade
Abstract excerpt
Increased physician prescribing of opioids to treat chronic nonprogressive pain has been accompanied by an increase in opioid addiction. Twin studies of opioid addiction are consistent with an inherited component of risk, approximately 50%. Several genome-wide association study (GWAS) reports indicate that genetic risk for opioid addiction is conveyed by many alleles of small effect (odds ratios <1.5). These...
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