Genomic DNA was extracted from blood leukocytes using the KingFisher Duo Prime Purification System (Thermo Scientific) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Genotyping of the SNPs DRD2/ANKK1 TaqIA (NCBI accession number: rs1800497) and COMT Val108/158Met (rs4680) was performed using PCR-based restriction fragment length analysis according to previously described protocols (Schott et al. 2006 (link); Wimber et al. 2011 (link); Richter et al. 2013 (link), 2014 (link), 2017 (link)). A1 carriers of the TaqIA SNP were grouped together (A1 + : A1/A1 and A1/A2; A1 − : A2/A2) as in the previous studies (Klein et al. 2007 (link); Frank and Hutchison, 2009 (link); Jocham et al. 2009 (link); Stelzel et al. 2010 (link); Stice et al. 2012 (link); Richter et al. 2013 (link), 2014 (link), 2017 (link)).
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