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Genetic Tests Could Improve Future Drug Abuse Treatment


 

The technology to screen for SNPs is very well developed, and the cost is rapidly decreasing. “It is definitely possible to do SNP testing in a community hospital setting, and insurance will even pay for some of this,” said Dr. Berrettini. “The biggest challenge right now is to make clinical sense of the massive amount of new information we have about the human genome.”

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