A neurological marker of addiction vulnerability occurs in sibling pairs who do not take drugs.
Conceptualizing addiction as pathological alteration of scale-free motivational behavioral repertoires unifies neurobiological, neurocomputational and behavioral research while addressing addiction vulnerability in adolescence and psychiatric illness.
Abnormalities in reinforcement behaviour have been linked to addiction vulnerability and imaging genetic studies have begun to elucidate the mechanisms by which genetic and environmental factors influence brain function underlying individual variability in reinforcement behaviour.
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There is also a significant overall overlap between addiction vulnerability GWA data and the genes identified in studies of success in smoking cessation [25].
These results do not exclude additional contributions to addiction vulnerability from genomic variants that influence vulnerability to specific substances or variants that are found only in specific populations, however.
Our identification of some SNP markers whose allelic frequencies distinguish controls from addicts of different ethnicities supports "common disease/common allele" genetic architecture for significant portions of addiction vulnerability [48] based on relatively old allelic variants.
For example, because genes that encode nicotinic cholinergic receptors have a clear biochemical connection to nicotine dependence, as do alcohol dehydrogenases for alcoholism, we should be especially vigilant in testing the hypothesis that variants in these genes might influence addiction vulnerability.
The good fits between results from ethnically-matched samples from the current data and dbGAP samples also support the idea that many addiction vulnerability variants are likely to display substantial differences from one human population to another (Drgon et al, in preparation).
25– 27 But to what extent can markers seen in gambling disorder really be directly extrapolated to addiction vulnerability?
