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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Herman AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4154357 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pharmacogenomics 20140201 2
The neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) plays a central role in addictive disorders, including nicotine addiction. Specific DA-related gene variants have been studied to identify responsiveness to treatment for nicotine addiction. Genetic variants in DRD2, DRD4, ANKK1, DAT1, COMT and DBH genes show some promise in informing personalized prescribing of smoking cessation pharmacotherapies. However, many trials studying these variants had small samples, used retrospective design or were composed of main ...[more]