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Yale Medicine School Scientists Identify Genetic Risk Factors for Opioid Use and Related Substance Use Disorders
July 27, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 27 (TNSjou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news:

A new human genomics study led by Yale scientists has identified genetic risk factors for opioid use disorder (OUD) and related substance use disorders according to a new large-scale genome-wide association study - increasing the number of risk genes known from 1 to 19.

This work comes as opioid-related overdoses have reached an all-time high in the United States and continue . . .

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