medpagetoday.com | Submitted by Jordanna, 09.26.08
Smokers who can't seem to quit no matter how hard they try may look to their genomes for 99 reasons, researchers here said. Ninety-nine autosomal genes are differently expressed in those who successfully quit smoking in clinical trials than in those who couldn't do it, according to George Uhl, M.D., Ph.D., of the NIH's molecular neurobiology branch, and colleagues.