Cannabis, COMT and psychotic experiences

S Zammit, MJ Owen, J Evans, J Heron… - The British Journal of …, 2011 - cambridge.org
BackgroundA putative interaction between cannabis and variation at rs4680 within the
catechol-methyl-transferase (COMT) gene on psychosis has been reported, but not …

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 …

Genotype effects of CHRNA7, CNR1 and COMT in schizophrenia: interactions with tobacco and cannabis use

S Zammit, G Spurlock, H Williams, N Norton… - The British Journal of …, 2007 - cambridge.org
BackgroundGenetic variations might modify associations between schizophrenia and
cannabis or tobacco use. AimsTo examine whether variants within the cannabinoid receptor …

Adolescent cannabis use and psychosis: epidemiology and neurodevelopmental models

DT Malone, MN Hill, T Rubino - British journal of pharmacology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Cannabis is one of the most widely used illicit drugs among adolescents, and most users
first experiment with it in adolescence. Adolescence is a critical phase for brain …

Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: longitudinal …

A Caspi, TE Moffitt, M Cannon, J McClay, R Murray… - Biological …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Recent evidence documents that cannabis use by young people is a
modest statistical risk factor for psychotic symptoms in adulthood, such as hallucinations and …

Genetic risk prediction and neurobiological understanding of alcoholism

DF Levey, H Le-Niculescu, J Frank, M Ayalew… - Translational …, 2014 - nature.com
We have used a translational Convergent Functional Genomics (CFG) approach to discover
genes involved in alcoholism, by gene-level integration of genome-wide association study …

Genome-wide association study in individuals of European and African ancestry and multi-trait analysis of opioid use disorder identifies 19 independent genome-wide …

JD Deak, H Zhou, M Galimberti, DF Levey… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the large toll of opioid use disorder (OUD), genome-wide association studies
(GWAS) of OUD to date have yielded few susceptibility loci. We performed a large-scale …

Confirmation that the AKT1 (rs2494732) genotype influences the risk of psychosis in cannabis users

M Di Forti, C Iyegbe, H Sallis, A Kolliakou… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of psychosis. One study
has suggested that genetic variation in the AKT1 gene might influence this effect …

A standard THC unit for reporting of health research on cannabis and cannabinoids

TP Freeman, V Lorenzetti - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2021 - thelancet.com
Comment 944 www. thelancet. com/psychiatry Vol 8 November 2021 with intellectual
disabilities from its mental health legislation, which resulted in increased numbers of people …

AKT1 genotype moderates the acute psychotomimetic effects of naturalistically smoked cannabis in young cannabis smokers

CJA Morgan, TP Freeman, J Powell… - Translational psychiatry, 2016 - nature.com
Smoking cannabis daily doubles an individual's risk of developing a psychotic disorder, yet
indicators of specific vulnerability have proved largely elusive. Genetic variation is one …