A twin-family study of alcoholism in women.

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A twin-family study of alcoholism in women.

The American journal of psychiatry - 1 May 1994

Kendler K S, Neale M C, Heath A C, Kessler R C, Eaves L J

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OBJECTIVE: The authors seek to understand in general the sources of familial resemblance for alcoholism and in particular how parents transmit the vulnerability to alcoholism to their daughters. METHOD: The authors interviewed 1,030 pairs of female same-sex twins of known zygosity from the population-based Virginia Twin Registry and 1,468 of their parents. They examined a narrow definition of alcoholism,...

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Adult
Alcohol Drinking
Alcoholism
Child of Impaired Parents
Disease Susceptibility
Diseases in Twins
Family
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Marriage

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Models, Genetic

Mothers

Prevalence

Registries

Severity of Illness Index

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PMID: 8166312
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.151.5.707

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