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Further Analyses of Genetic Association Between GRM8 and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Among Young Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The gene GRM8, a metabotropic glutamate receptor, has emerged as a gene of interest for its possible role in the development of alcohol dependence, with evidence of association with an electrophysiological endophenotype and level of response to alcohol as well as suggestive evidence of association with alcohol dependence.

Method

The present study further investigated the association between GRM8 and alcohol dependence symptom counts among young adults using a new sample of individuals collected as part of the prospective sample (ages 18-26 years; N = 842) from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA).

Results

Two single-nucleotide polymorphisms were significantly associated with alcohol dependence in European Americans using the Nyholt corrected p value of .007: rs886003 (β = -.212, p = .0002) and rs17862325 (β = -.234, p < .0001), but not in African Americans, likely because of the lower power to detect association in this group.

Conclusions

These results further implicate the role of glutamate receptor genes such as GRM8 in the development of alcohol dependence.

SUBMITTER: Long EC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4440299 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Further Analyses of Genetic Association Between GRM8 and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Among Young Adults.

Long Elizabeth C EC Aliev Fazil F Wang Jen-Chyong JC Edenberg Howard J HJ Nurnberger John J Hesselbrock Victor V Porjesz Bernice B Dick Danielle M DM

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs 20150501 3

<h4>Objective</h4>The gene GRM8, a metabotropic glutamate receptor, has emerged as a gene of interest for its possible role in the development of alcohol dependence, with evidence of association with an electrophysiological endophenotype and level of response to alcohol as well as suggestive evidence of association with alcohol dependence.<h4>Method</h4>The present study further investigated the association between GRM8 and alcohol dependence symptom counts among young adults using a new sample ...[more]

PMID: 25978827

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Further Analyses of Genetic Association Between GRM8 and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Among Young Adults.

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Further Analyses of Genetic Association Between GRM8 and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms Among Young Adults.

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