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However, the contributions of genetic variability in this system to individuals' cognitive control abilities are poorly understood and the brain processes that mediate such genetic contributions remain largely unidentified. In this first large-scale neuroimaging genetics study of the human nicotinic receptor system (two cohorts, males and females, fMRI total<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 1586, behavioral total<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 3650), we investigated a common polymorphism of the high-affinity nicotinic receptor \u03b14\u03b22 (rs1044396 on the<jats:italic>CHRNA4<\/jats:italic>gene) previously implicated in behavioral and nicotine-related studies (albeit with inconsistent major\/minor allele impacts). Based on our prior neuroimaging findings, we expected this polymorphism to affect neural activity in the cingulo-opercular (CO) network involved in core cognitive control processes including maintenance of alertness. Consistent across the cohorts, all cortical areas of the CO network showed higher activity in heterozygotes compared with both types of homozygotes during cognitive engagement. This inverted U-shaped relation reflects an overdominant effect; that is, allelic interaction (cumulative evidence<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>= 1.33 * 10<jats:sup>\u22125<\/jats:sup>). Furthermore, heterozygotes performed more accurately in behavioral tasks that primarily depend on sustained alertness. No effects were observed for haplotypes of the surrounding<jats:italic>CHRNA4<\/jats:italic>region, supporting a true overdominant effect at rs1044396. As a possible mechanism, we observed that this polymorphism is an expression quantitative trait locus modulating<jats:italic>CHRNA4<\/jats:italic>expression levels. This is the first report of overdominance in the nicotinic system. 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We report a hitherto unknown overdominant effect (allelic interaction) at this locus, where the heterozygotes show higher activity in the cingulo-opercular network underlying alertness maintenance and higher behavioral alertness performance than both homozygous groups. 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