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TITLE
Stimulant use and symptoms of abuse/dependence: epidemiology and associations with cannabis use--a twin study.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
This paper explores the magnitude of--and extent of overlap between--additive genetic, shared environmental and non-shared environmental influences on lifetime stimulant use and on stimulant abuse/dependence symptoms; the associations between stimulant use and cannabis use and the extent to which these associations can be attributed to common or correlated genetic and environmental influences.
METHODS NlmCategory: METHODS
Self-report data on lifetime stimulant use, abuse/dependence symptoms and corresponding measures of cannabis involvement were collected from a sample of 6265 male and female Australian twins born 1964-1971.
RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
Approximately one in five study participants reported lifetime stimulant use while 5% reported experiencing at least one symptom of abuse/dependence. Multivariate genetic model fitting indicated moderate genetic influences on stimulant use (40%) and symptoms (65%) while there was no evidence of sex differences in the magnitude of these influences. Despite some overlap in genetic influences on these measures, approximately 60% of the genetic variance in symptoms was specific to this phenotype. There were also strong genetic and shared environmental correlations between the factors associated with stimulant use and those associated with cannabis use.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
There were moderate genetic influences on stimulant use and stimulant abuse/dependence with moderate overlap between the genetic factors associated with these outcomes. Additionally, there were strong associations between measures of lifetime stimulant use and analogous measures of cannabis use which, importantly, could be largely attributed to shared familial risk factors predisposing to both stimulant and cannabis use.
DATE PUBLISHED
2007 Jan 12
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2005/09/22
revised 2006/03/30
accepted 2006/05/23
aheadofprint 2006/06/30
pubmed 2006/07/04 09:00
medline 2007/06/22 09:00
entrez 2006/07/04 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Lynskey MT Lynskey Michael T MT Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Rd, Suite 1000, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States. mlynskey@wustl.edu
Grant JD Grant Julia D JD
Li L Li Li L
Nelson EC Nelson Elliot C EC
Bucholz KK Bucholz Kathleen K KK
Madden PA Madden Pamela A F PA
Statham D Statham Dixie D
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Heath AC Heath Andrew C AC
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 86
ISSUE: 2-3
TITLE: Drug and alcohol dependence
ISOABBREVIATION: Drug Alcohol Depend
YEAR: 2007
MONTH: Jan
DAY: 12
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0376-8716
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Drug Alcohol Depend
COUNTRY: Ireland
ISSNLINKING: 0376-8716
NLMUNIQUEID: 7513587
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA10248 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA11998 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA13321 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
DA18267 NIDA NIH HHS United States
DA18660 NIDA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Diseases in Twins
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Marijuana Abuse genetics
Social Environment genetics
Substance-Related Disorders genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Central Nervous System Stimulants
OTHER ID's