Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and lifetime cannabis use: genetic overlap and causality

M Soler Artigas, C Sánchez-Mora, P Rovira… - Molecular …, 2020 - nature.com
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a severely impairing neurodevelopmental
disorder with a prevalence of 5% in children and adolescents and of 2.5% in adults …

GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal effect of schizophrenia liability

JA Pasman, KJH Verweij, Z Gerring, S Stringer… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health
outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to …

Genetic overlap and causality between substance use disorder and attention‐deficit and hyperactivity disorder

L Vilar‐Ribó, C Sánchez‐Mora, P Rovira… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Substance use disorder (SUD) often co‐occur at high prevalence with other psychiatric
conditions. Among them, attention‐deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is present in …

Molecular genetics of adult ADHD: converging evidence from genome-wide association and extended pedigree linkage studies

KP Lesch, N Timmesfeld, TJ Renner, R Halperin… - Journal of neural …, 2008 - Springer
A genome-wide association (GWA) study with pooled DNA in adult attention-
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) employing~ 500K SNP markers identifies novel risk …

[HTML][HTML] A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder

EC Johnson, D Demontis, TE Thorgeirsson… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Variation in liability to cannabis use disorder has a strong genetic component
(estimated twin and family heritability about 50–70%) and is associated with negative …

Genome-wide association study identifies a novel locus for cannabis dependence

A Agrawal, YL Chou, CE Carey, DAA Baranger… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite moderate heritability, only one study has identified genome-wide significant loci for
cannabis-related phenotypes. We conducted meta-analyses of genome-wide association …

Genome-wide association study of cannabis dependence severity, novel risk variants, and shared genetic risks

R Sherva, Q Wang, H Kranzler, H Zhao… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cannabis dependence (CAD) is a serious problem worldwide and is of growing
importance in the United States because cannabis is increasingly available legally …

Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders

RK Walters, R Polimanti, EC Johnson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Liability to alcohol dependence (AD) is heritable, but little is known about its complex
polygenic architecture or its genetic relationship with other disorders. To discover loci …

Cannabis controversies: how genetics can inform the study of comorbidity

A Agrawal, MT Lynskey - Addiction, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To review three key and controversial comorbidities of cannabis use—other illicit drug
use, psychosis and depression, as well as suicide, from a genetically informed perspective …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of lifetime cannabis use based on a large meta-analytic sample of 32 330 subjects from the International Cannabis …

S Stringer, CC Minică, KJH Verweij, H Mbarek… - Translational …, 2016 - nature.com
Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed illicit psychoactive substance
worldwide. Occasional cannabis use can progress to frequent use, abuse and dependence …