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22874079
TITLE
An Australian twin study of cannabis and other illicit drug use and misuse, and other psychopathology.
ABSTRACT
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug throughout the developed world and there is consistent evidence of heritable influences on multiple stages of cannabis involvement including initiation of use and abuse/dependence. In this paper, we describe the methodology and preliminary results of a large-scale interview study of 3,824 young adult twins (born 1972-1979) and their siblings. Cannabis use was common with 75.2% of males and 64.7% of females reporting some lifetime use of cannabis while 24.5% of males and 11.8% of females reported meeting criteria for DSM-IV cannabis abuse or dependence. Rates of other drug use disorders and common psychiatric conditions were highly correlated with extent of cannabis involvement and there was consistent evidence of heritable influences across a range of cannabis phenotypes including early (≤15 years) opportunity to use (h 2 = 72%), early (≤16 years) onset use (h 2 = 80%), using cannabis 11+ times lifetime (h 2 = 76%), and DSM abuse/dependence (h 2 = 72%). Early age of onset of cannabis use was strongly associated with increased rates of subsequent use of other illicit drugs and with illicit drug abuse/dependence; further analyses indicating that some component of this association may have been mediated by increasing exposure to and opportunity to use other illicit drugs.
DATE PUBLISHED
2012 Oct
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
aheadofprint 2012/07/09
entrez 2012/08/10 06:00
pubmed 2012/08/10 06:00
medline 2013/04/05 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Lynskey MT Lynskey Michael T MT Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. lynskeym@psychiatry.wustl.edu
Agrawal A Agrawal Arpana A
Henders A Henders Anjali A
Nelson EC Nelson Elliot C EC
Madden PA Madden Pamela A F PA
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 15
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2012
MONTH: Oct
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1832-4274
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1832-4274
NLMUNIQUEID: 101244624
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
REFTYPE REFSOURCE REFPMID NOTE
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GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
DA18267 NIDA NIH HHS United States
R01 DA018267 NIDA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Age of Onset
Australia
Comorbidity
Diseases in Twins
Educational Status
Female
Humans
Male
Marijuana Abuse psychology
Phenotype psychology
Psychopathology psychology
Street Drugs psychology
Substance-Related Disorders psychology
Twins, Dizygotic psychology
Twins, Monozygotic psychology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Street Drugs
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
NIHMS471039 NLM
PMC3717485 NLM
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