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TITLE
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Genetic and Cultural Transmission of Smoking Initiation Using an Extended Twin Kinship Model.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
Considerable evidence from twin and adoption studies indicates that genetic and shared environmental factors play a role in the initiation of smoking behavior. Although twin and adoption designs are powerful to detect genetic and environmental influences, they do not provide information on the processes of assortative mating and parent-offspring transmission and their contribution to the variability explained by genetic and/or environmental factors.
METHODS NlmCategory: METHODS
We examined the role of genetic and environmental factors in individual differences for smoking initiation (SI) using an extended kinship design. This design allows the simultaneous testing of additive and non-additive genetic, shared and individual-specific environmental factors, as well as sex differences in the expression of genes and environment in the presence of assortative mating and combined genetic and cultural transmission, while also estimating the regression of the prevalence of SI on age. A dichotomous lifetime 'ever' smoking measure was obtained from twins and relatives in the 'Virginia 30,000' sample and the 'Australian 25,000'.
RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
Results demonstrate that both genetic and environmental factors play a significant role in the liability to SI. Major influences on individual differences appeared to be additive genetic and unique environmental effects, with smaller contributions from assortative mating, shared sibling environment, twin environment, cultural transmission, and resulting genotype-environment covariance. Age regression of the prevalence of SI was significant. The finding of negative cultural transmission without dominance led us to investigate more closely two possible mechanisms for the lower parent-offspring correlations compared to the sibling and DZ twin correlations in subsets of the data: (1) age × gene interaction, and (2) social homogamy. Neither of the mechanism provided a significantly better explanation of the data.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
This study showed significant heritability, partly due to assortment, and significant effects of primarily non-parental shared environment on liability to SI.
DATE PUBLISHED
2018 May 14
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2018/05/15 06:00
pubmed 2018/05/15 06:00
medline 2018/05/15 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Maes HH Maes Hermine H HH Department of Human Genetics,Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA,USA.
Morley K Morley Kate K Genetic Epidemiology,QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute,Brisbane,Queensland,Australia.
Neale MC Neale Michael C MC Department of Human Genetics,Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA,USA.
Kendler KS Kendler Kenneth S KS Department of Human Genetics,Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA,USA.
Heath AC Heath Andrew C AC Department of Psychiatry,Washington University School of Medicine,St Louis,MO,USA.
Eaves LJ Eaves Lindon J LJ Department of Human Genetics,Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA,USA.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG Genetic Epidemiology,QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute,Brisbane,Queensland,Australia.
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TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2018
MONTH: May
DAY: 14
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1832-4274
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1832-4274
NLMUNIQUEID: 101244624
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Journal Article
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KEYWORDS
KEYWORD
assortment
cultural transmission
extended twin kinship design
genetics
smoking initiation (SI)
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