Medscape (3/1, Brooks) reports, “Researchers have identified a novel gene variant involved in opioid addiction, a finding that may aid efforts to develop novel pharmacologic approaches to the treatment of opioid dependence.” Medscape reports that in a genome-wide association study, “investigators found that a variant on chromosome 15 (rs12442138) near the repulsive guidance molecule A (RGMA) gene was associated with opioid dependence at a ‘genome-wide significant’ level.” The study was published online in Biological Psychiatry.
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