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A gene implicated in schizophrenia risk is also associated with risk for cannabis dependence

Thursday, 11 October 2012 18:46

A paper by Shizhong Han and colleagues in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry implicates a new gene in the risk for cannabis dependence. This gene, NRG1, codes for the ErbB4 receptor, a protein implicated in synaptic development and function.

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