Factors contributing to the escalation of alcohol consumption

MT Bowen, O George, DE Muskiewicz… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding factors that contribute to the escalation of alcohol consumption is key to
understanding how an individual transitions from non/social drinking to AUD and to …

Whole genome sequence analysis of the plasma proteome in black adults provides novel insights into cardiovascular disease

DH Katz, UA Tahir, AG Bick, A Pampana, D Ngo… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Plasma proteins are critical mediators of cardiovascular processes and are the
targets of many drugs. Previous efforts to characterize the genetic architecture of the plasma …

Genome-wide investigation of maximum habitual alcohol intake in US veterans in relation to alcohol consumption traits and alcohol use disorder

JD Deak, DF Levey, FR Wendt, H Zhou… - JAMA Network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Alcohol genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have generally focused on
alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder (AUD); few have examined habitual drinking …

The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits

B Cabrera-Mendoza, FR Wendt, GA Pathak… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
To investigate assortative mating (AM), participation bias and socioeconomic status (SES)
with respect to the genetics of behavioural and psychiatric traits, we estimated AM …

Alcohol use polygenic risk score, social support, and alcohol use among European American and African American adults

J Su, I Sally, C Kuo, F Aliev, JA Rabinowitz… - Development and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Alcohol use is influenced by genetic and environmental factors. We examined the interactive
effects between genome-wide polygenic risk scores for alcohol use (alc-PRS) and social …

Transferability of genetic loci and polygenic scores for cardiometabolic traits in British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis

QQ Huang, N Sallah, D Dunca, B Trivedi, KA Hunt… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Abstract Background Individuals with South Asian ancestry have higher risk of heart disease
than other groups in Western countries; however, most genetic research has focused on …

Predicting alcohol use from genome-wide polygenic scores, environmental factors, and their interactions in young adulthood

R Kandaswamy, A Allegrini, AF Nancarrow… - Psychosomatic …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective Alcohol use during emerging adulthood is associated with adverse life outcomes,
but its risk factors are not well known. Here, we predicted alcohol use in 3153 young adults …

Genome‐wide association mapping of ethanol sensitivity in the Diversity Outbred mouse population

CC Parker, VM Philip, DM Gatti… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background A strong predictor for the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD) is altered
sensitivity to the intoxicating effects of alcohol. Individual differences in the initial sensitivity …

La importancia de incluir personas de ascendencia latinoamericana en estudios genéticos de trastornos de la ingesta y de la conducta alimentaria

J Murgueito, JJM Magaña, E Trujillo… - Revista …, 2023 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Históricamente, los estudios de asociación de genoma completo (GWAS) de enfermedades
psiquiátricas incluyen principalmente poblaciones europeas, excluyendo a otras, como la …

Importance of including individuals of Latin American ancestry in genetic studies of feeding and eating disorders

J Murgueito, JJ Martínez-Magaña… - Revista …, 2023 - repsasppr.net
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of psychiatric disorders have focused primarily
on individuals of European ancestry, excluding other ancestries, including Latin American …