Multivariate genetic analysis of the causes of temperance board registrations: In all Swedish male-female twin pairs born 1926-1949

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 172, Issue MAR., 1998, Pages 268-272

  Kendler, K S ^a,c   Karkowski, L M ^a   Prescott, C A ^a   Neale, M C ^a   Pedersen, N L ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SWEDEN; TWINS;

EID: 0031934592     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.172.3.268     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Akaike, H. (1987) Factor analysis and AIC. Psychometrika, 52, 317-332.
2. Amark, C. (1951) A study in alcoholism: clinical, social-psychiatric and genetic investigations. Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica Scandinavica Supplementum, 70, 1-283.
3. Babor, T. F. (1996) The classification of alcoholics: typology theories from the 19th century to the present. Alcohol Health and Research World, 20, 6-14.
4. Bohman, M., Cloninger, C. R., Sigvardsson, S., et al (1982) Predisposition to petty criminality in Swedish adoptees: I. Genetic and environmental heterogeneity Archives of General Psychiatry, 39, 1233-1241.
5. Cederlof, R., Friberg, L., Jonsson, E., et al (1961) Studies on similarity diagnosis in twins with the aid of mailed questionnaires. Acta Genetica et Statistica Medica, 11, 338-362.
6. Cloninger, C. R. (1987) Neurogenetic adaptive mechanisms in alcoholism. Science, 236, 410-416.
7. _, Bohman, M. & Sigvardsson, S. (1981) Inheritance of alcohol abuse: cross-fostering analysis of adopted men. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 861-868.
8. _, Przybeck, T. R., Syrakic, D. M., et al (1994) The Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): A Guide to Its Development and Use. St Louis: Center for Psychobiology of Personality, Washington University.
9. Dahlberg, G. (1942) The occurrence of alcoholics and their treatment: a social-statistical analysis for the town of Malmö 1929-1938. Acta Medica Scandinavica, III, 325-358.
10. Feild, H. S. & Armenakis, A. A. (1974) On use of multiple tests of significance in psychological research. Psychological Reports, 35, 427-431.
11. Hjörtzberg-Nordlund, H. (1968) Abuse of alcohol in middle-aged men in Göteborg: A social psychiatric investigation. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 44 (suppl. 199), 1-127.
12. Joreskog, K. G. & Sorbom, D. (1988) PRELIS: A Preprocessor for LISREL. Mooresville, IN: Scientific Software.
13. Kendler, K. S. (1993) Twin studies of psychiatric illness: current status and future directions. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50, 905-915.
14. _, Heath, A. C., Martin, N. G., et al (1987) Symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression: same genes, different environments? Archives of General Psychiatry; 44, 451-457.
15. _, Prescott, C. A., Neale, M. C., et al (1997) Temperance board registration for alcohol abuse in a national sample of Swedish male twins born 1902-1949. Archives of General Psychiatry, 54, 178-184.
16. McArdle, J. J. & Goldsmith, H. H. (1990) Alternative common-factor models for multivariate biometric analyses. Behavior Genetics, 20, 569-608.
17. Medlund, P., Cederlof, R., Floderus-Myrhed, B., et al (1977) A Swedish twin registry. Acta Medica Scandinavica, Supplementum, 600.
18. Neale, M. C. & Cardon, L. R. (1992) Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families, pp. 248-253. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.
19. Reich, W. & Earls, F. (1990) Interviewing adolescents by telephone: is it a useful methodological strategy? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 31, 211-215.
20. Robins, L. N. (1966) Deviant Children Grown Up. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.
21. Rutter, M. (1978) Family, area and school influences in the genesis of conduct disorders. In Aggression and Anti-Social Behaviour in Childhood and Adolescence (eds L. A. Hersov & M. A. Berger), pp. 95-114. London: Pergamon.
22. Sigvardsson, S., Bohman, M. & Cloninger, C. R. (1996) Replication of the Stockholm Adoption Study of alcoholism: confirmatory cross-fostering analysis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53, 681-687.
23. Williams, L. J. & Holahan, P. J. (1994) Parsimony-based fit indices for multiple-indicator models: do they work? Structural Equation Modeling, 1, 161-189.
24. Zuckerman, M. (1972) Drug use as one manifestation of a 'sensation-seeking trait'. In Drug Abuse: Current Concepts and Research (ed. W. Keup), pp. 154-163. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.