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TITLE
Common genetic risk factors for conduct disorder and alcohol dependence.
ABSTRACT
The association between retrospectively reported childhood conduct disorder (CD) and a history of alcohol dependence (AD) was examined in a sample of 2,682 male, female, and unlike-sex adult twin pairs. There was a strong association between CD and AD in both men (tetrachoric r = .34, odds ratio = 2.8) and women (tetrachoric r = .53, odds ratio = 9.9). Genetic factors accounted for most of the association between CD and AD liability in men and women, with the remainder of the association being due to nonshared individual-specific environmental factors. Genetic influences common to CD and AD accounted for 17% and 35% of the genetic variation in AD liability in men and women, respectively, and accounted for 11% and 23% of the total variation in AD liability in men and women, respectively. The results suggest that there are common genetic risk factors for CD and AD or that CD itself is an important genetically influenced risk factor for AD.
DATE PUBLISHED
1998 Aug
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1998/08/26
medline 1998/08/26 00:01
entrez 1998/08/26 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Slutske WS Slutske W S WS Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211, USA. psycws@showme.missouri.edu
Heath AC Heath A C AC
Dinwiddie SH Dinwiddie S H SH
Madden PA Madden P A PA
Bucholz KK Bucholz K K KK
Dunne MP Dunne M P MP
Statham DJ Statham D J DJ
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 107
ISSUE: 3
TITLE: Journal of abnormal psychology
ISOABBREVIATION: J Abnorm Psychol
YEAR: 1998
MONTH: Aug
DAY:
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SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0021-843X
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Abnorm Psychol
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0021-843X
NLMUNIQUEID: 0034461
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AA07535 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA07728 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
AA10249 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Alcohol-Related Disorders genetics
Australia epidemiology
Chi-Square Distribution epidemiology
Comorbidity epidemiology
Conduct Disorder genetics
Female genetics
Humans genetics
Least-Squares Analysis genetics
Likelihood Functions genetics
Male genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Models, Genetic genetics
Odds Ratio genetics
Retrospective Studies genetics
Risk Factors genetics
Twins, Dizygotic statistics & numerical data
Twins, Monozygotic statistics & numerical data
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