Throwing the micro switch: MicroRNA may link smoking risk gene to neurobiology of addiction
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 09:07
in Biology & Nature
During the past several years, significant progress has been made in identifying susceptibility genes for nicotine dependence through genetic linkage and association analyses. Although a large number of genes have been associated with tobacco smoking, only a very limited number of genetic variants are considered to be causative. How to find these functional variants and then characterize them remains challenging in the field of human genetics.