Individual differences in liability to substance abuse and related psychopathology. Principal investigator of the family study component of our Drug Abuse Research Center. The Center for Antisocial Drug Dependence: Genetics is a collaborative NIDA-funded Center of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics and the Addiction Research Treatment Service of the University of Colorado Denver.
Selected Publications:
1. Hopfer CJ, Lessem JM, Hartman CA, Stallings MC, Cherny SS, Corley RP, Hewitt JK, Krauter KS, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Rhee SH, Smolen A, Young SE, Crowley TJ. (2006). A genome-wide scan for loci influencing adolescent cannabis dependence symptoms: evidence for linkage on chromosomes 3 and 9. Drug and alcohol dependence, 89(1), 34-4. | pubmed abstract |
2. Bricker JB, Stallings MC, Corley RP, Wadsworth SJ, Bryan A, Timberlake DS, Hewitt JK, Caspi A, Hofer SM, Rhea SA, DeFries JC. (2006). Genetic and environmental influences on age at sexual initiation in the Colorado Adoption Project. Behavior Genetics, 36(6), 820-32. | pubmed abstract |
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Stallings MC, Corley RP, Dennehey B, Hewitt JK, Krauter KS, Lessem JM, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Rhee SH, Smolen A, Young SE, Crowley TJ. (2005).
A genome-wide search for quantitative trait Loci that influence antisocial drug dependence in adolescence.
Archives of general psychiatry, 62(9), 1042-51. | pubmed abstract |