Normal allele: AA
Alleles of alpha-5/alpha-3 nicotinic receptor subunits increase the risk of heavy smoking.
Polymorphism rs1317286 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
18227835 Alpha-5/alpha-3 nicotinic receptor subunit alleles increase risk for heavy smoking
18759969 In search of causal variants: refining disease association signals using cross-population contrasts
20393456 Sensorimotor gating is associated with CHRNA3 polymorphisms in schizophrenia and healthy volunteers.
20808433 Associations of variants in CHRNA5/A3/B4 gene cluster with smoking behaviors in a Korean population
21229299 Chromosome 15q24-25.1 variants, diet, and lung cancer susceptibility in cigarette smokers
21808284 Gender-stratified gene and gene-treatment interactions in smoking cessation.
22495174 DRD1 associations with smoking abstinence across slow and normal nicotine metabolizers.
23027417 Nicotinic mechanisms in the treatment of psychotic disorders: a focus on the α7 nicotinic receptor.
23429840 Prepulse inhibition of startle response: recent advances in human studies of psychiatric disease.