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NIDA center for genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats (P50DA037844)
There are few effective therapies to treat drug abuse and dependence, despite the urgent need to develop more effective treatments. A major impediment to the development of such treatments is our extremely limited understanding of the biological basis of drug abuse.
While human genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have begun to elucidate genes that influence various traits relevant to drug abuse, they are still unable to attribute more than a small fraction of the heritable variance to specific genes. NIDA center for genetic studies of drug abuse in outbred rats (P50DA037844) was created in 2014 to perform GWAS on numerous behavioral traits that have well-established relevance to drug abuse using outbred rats. The Center was successfully renewed in 2019. We expect to discover new genes that can influence drug abuse-related behaviors in rats, therefore improving our understanding of genetic susceptibility to drug abuse in humans. Our results will help to identify new opportunities to treat psychiatric disorders, including addiction.
Abraham Palmer, PHD
Maryann Martone
Paul Meyer
Trey Ideker
Oksana Polesskaya
Leah Solberg-Woods
Anita Bandrowski
Hao Chen
Shelly Flagel
Jerry Richards
David Dietz
Jeffrey Grethe
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