About the Authors
- Scott F. Saccone
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* E-mail: ssaccone@wustl.edu
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Laura J. Bierut
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Elissa J. Chesler
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Affiliation Systems Genetics Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
- Peter W. Kalivas
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Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Caryn Lerman
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Nancy L. Saccone
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- George R. Uhl
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Affiliation Molecular Neurobiology Branch, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Intramural Research Program (IRP) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Chuan-Yun Li
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Affiliations Molecular Neurobiology Branch, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Intramural Research Program (IRP) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Vivek M. Philip
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Affiliation Systems Genetics Group, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America
- Howard J. Edenberg
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Stephen T. Sherry
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Michael Feolo
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Robert K. Moyzis
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Affiliations Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Joni L. Rutter
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Affiliation Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services(DHHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Drs. S.F. Saccone and L.J. Bierut are listed as inventors on a patent (US 20070258898) held by Perlegen Sciences, Inc., covering the use of certain SNPs in determining the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of addiction. Dr. N.L. Saccone is the spouse of Dr. S.F. Saccone, who is listed as an inventor on the aforementioned patent. Dr. Bierut has served as a consultant to Pfizer.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SFS LB EJC PK CL NLS GU CYL VMP HJE RM JLR. Performed the experiments: SFS EJC VMP. Analyzed the data: SFS EJC VMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SFS EJC GU CYL VMP SS MF RM. Wrote the paper: SFS LB EJC PK CL NLS GU HJE JLR.