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1583905
TITLE
Genetic differences in psychomotor performance decrement after alcohol: a multivariate analysis.
ABSTRACT
We reanalyzed data on the decline in performance on a battery of psychomotor tests, after a standard dose of ethanol (0.75 g/kg body weight), of 206 same-sex twin pairs. Principal components analysis identified two orthogonal factors. The first factor was strongly associated with increased body sway, self-rated intoxication and unwillingness to drive, and reported low average weekly alcohol consumption, but showed a very weak association with blood alcohol concentration. The second factor had high loadings on tests assessing psychomotor coordination, was strongly associated with blood alcohol concentration, but was unrelated to willingness to drive or self-rated intoxication. Multivariate genetic analysis indicated independent genetic and environmental determination of differences in sensitivity to the effects of alcohol on these two factors.
DATE PUBLISHED
1992 May
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1992/05/01
medline 1992/05/01 00:01
entrez 1992/05/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Heath AC Heath A C AC Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 53
ISSUE: 3
TITLE: Journal of studies on alcohol
ISOABBREVIATION: J. Stud. Alcohol
YEAR: 1992
MONTH: May
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0096-882X
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Stud Alcohol
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
ISSNLINKING: 0096-882X
NLMUNIQUEID: 7503813
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA07535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
MH40828 NIMH NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Alcohol Drinking psychology
Alcoholic Intoxication psychology
Female psychology
Humans psychology
Male psychology
Phenotype psychology
Psychomotor Performance drug effects
Risk Factors drug effects
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's