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Sources of Parent-Child Transmission of Drug Abuse : Path Analyses of Not-Lived-With Parental, Stepparental, Triparental, and Adoptive Families

Kendler, Kenneth S. LU ; Ohlsson, Henrik LU ; Sundquist, Kristina LU and Sundquist, Jan LU (2018) In Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 206(4). p.239-244
Abstract

To clarify the origins of parent-child resemblance for drug abuse (DA), using national Swedish data, we fit path models to information on DA in parents and children from six informative family types: i) not-lived-with father, ii) not-lived-with mother, iii) stepfather, iv) stepmother, v) triparental, and vi) adoptive. From these families, we estimated parent-offspring resemblance reflecting the effects of genes + rearing, genes only, and rearing only. The estimates of parent-offspring correlations were statistically homogenous across family types. The weighted estimate of the father-offspring correlation for DA for genes + rearing, genes-only, and rearing-only relationships were, respectively, +0.26, +0.19, and +0.06. Parallel figures... (More)

To clarify the origins of parent-child resemblance for drug abuse (DA), using national Swedish data, we fit path models to information on DA in parents and children from six informative family types: i) not-lived-with father, ii) not-lived-with mother, iii) stepfather, iv) stepmother, v) triparental, and vi) adoptive. From these families, we estimated parent-offspring resemblance reflecting the effects of genes + rearing, genes only, and rearing only. The estimates of parent-offspring correlations were statistically homogenous across family types. The weighted estimate of the father-offspring correlation for DA for genes + rearing, genes-only, and rearing-only relationships were, respectively, +0.26, +0.19, and +0.06. Parallel figures for mother-offspring relationships were +0.19, +0.13, and +0.09. In both genes + rearing and genes-only parent-offspring relationships, DA correlations were stronger for fathers than for mothers. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute substantially to parent-offspring resemblance for DA and seem to be additive.

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Drug abuse, environment, genetics, parent-offspring, rearing, Sweden
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Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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206
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6 pages
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Wolters Kluwer
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0022-3018
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10.1097/NMD.0000000000000775
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  author       = {{Kendler, Kenneth S. and Ohlsson, Henrik and Sundquist, Kristina and Sundquist, Jan}},
  issn         = {{0022-3018}},
  keywords     = {{Drug abuse; environment; genetics; parent-offspring; rearing; Sweden}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{04}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{239--244}},
  publisher    = {{Wolters Kluwer}},
  series       = {{Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease}},
  title        = {{Sources of Parent-Child Transmission of Drug Abuse : Path Analyses of Not-Lived-With Parental, Stepparental, Triparental, and Adoptive Families}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000775}},
  doi          = {{10.1097/NMD.0000000000000775}},
  volume       = {{206}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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