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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008 Aug 13;33(13):3078–3084. doi: 10.1038/npp.2008.126

Table 3.

COMT Val158Met in substance use disorders

Author Year Ethnicity Substance use disorder Sample size Val 158 frequency Met 158 frequency p value allele freq
Vandenbergh et al 1997 Caucasian Polysubstance abuse
(lifetime use)
Cases = 185
Controls = 124
Vandenbergh et al 2000
Kauhanen et al 2000
Li et al 2004 Han
Chinese
Methamphetamine Cases = 416
Controls = 435
0.74
0.68
0.26
0.32
0.02
Beuten et al 2005
Enoch et al 2006
Horowitz et al 2000
Hosak et al 2006
Samochowiec et al 2006
Sery et al 2006
Tiihonen et al 1999
Wang et al 2001
Cevoli et al 2006
Guo et al 2007
Kweon et al 2005
Hallikainen et al 2000