Article
The misclassification of family history status in studies of children of alcoholics.
Journal of studies on alcohol - 1 Jan 1995
Schuckit M A, Klein J L, Twitchell G R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The search for genetic and phenotypic markers associated with future alcoholism risk often centers on comparisons of children of alcoholics and controls. Such studies require large samples to compensate for the rate of expression of alcoholism in less than half of children of alcoholics, the importance of environmental influences, the complex types of inheritance likely to be involved and the lack of...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Alcoholism
- Bias
- California
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Social Environment
