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36189823
TITLE
Educational Attainment Polygenic Scores: Examining Evidence for Gene-Environment Interplay with Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis Use.
ABSTRACT
Genes associated with educational attainment may be related to or interact with adolescent alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use. Potential gene-environment interplay between educational attainment polygenic scores (EA-PGS) and adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use was evaluated with a series of regression models fitted to data from a sample of 1871 adult Australian twins. All models controlled for age, age<sup>2</sup>, cohort, sex and genetic ancestry as fixed effects, and a genetic relatedness matrix was included as a random effect. Although there was no evidence that adolescent alcohol, tobacco or cannabis use interacted with EA-PGS to influence educational attainment, there was a significant, positive gene-environment correlation with adolescent alcohol use at all PGS thresholds (<i>p</i>s &lt;.02). Higher EA-PGS were associated with an increased likelihood of using alcohol as an adolescent (Δ<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> ranged from 0.5% to 1.1%). The positive gene-environment correlation suggests a complex relationship between educational attainment and alcohol use that is due to common genetic factors.
DATE PUBLISHED
2022 10
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2022/10/04 06:00
medline 2022/11/10 06:00
entrez 2022/10/03 06:14
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Davis CN Davis Christal N CN Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO65211, USA.
Gizer IR Gizer Ian R IR Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO65211, USA.
Colodro-Conde L Colodro-Conde Lucía L QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland4006, Australia.
Statham DJ Statham Dixie J DJ Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria3350, Australia.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland4006, Australia.
Slutske WS Slutske Wendy S WS Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI53711, USA.
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 25
ISSUE: 4-5
TITLE: Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res Hum Genet
YEAR: 2022
MONTH: 10
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
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
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
KEYWORD
alcohol
cannabis
educational attainment
polygenic scores
tobacco
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Adolescent
Humans
Cannabis
Tobacco
Australia epidemiology
Multifactorial Inheritance genetics
Educational Status genetics
Ethanol genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
3K9958V90M Ethanol
OTHER ID's