Article
Genetic and environmental influences on lifetime alcohol-related problems in a volunteer sample of older twins.
Journal of studies on alcohol - 1 Mar 1994
Prescott C A, Hewitt J K, Truett K R, Heath A C, Neale M C, Eaves L J
Abstract excerpt
Few studies have employed genetically informative designs to study the causes of alcohol-related problems in nonclinical populations. We report patterns of alcohol abuse in a community-based U.S. volunteer sample of 3,049 female and 1,070 male twins aged 50 to 96. Significant gender and age effec...
Topics
- Aged
- Alcoholism
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Cohort Studies
- Diseases in Twins
- Educational Status
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
- Personality Development
- Phenotype
- Risk Factors
- Social Environment
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic