Learning about addiction from the genome
- 15 February 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 409 (6822), 834-835
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35057015
Abstract
Drug addiction can be defined as the compulsive seeking and taking of a drug despite adverse consequences. Although addiction involves many psychological and social factors, it also represents a biological process: the effects of repeated drug exposure on a vulnerable brain. The sequencing of the human and other mammalian genomes will help us to understand the biology of addiction by enabling us to identify both genes that contribute to individual risk for addiction and those through which drugs cause addiction. We illustrate this potential impact by searching a draft sequence of the human genome for genes related to desensitization of receptors that mediate the actions of drugs of abuse on the nervous system.Keywords
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