The genetics of addiction—a translational perspective

A Agrawal, KJH Verweij, NA Gillespie, AC Heath… - Translational …, 2012 - nature.com
Addictions are serious and common psychiatric disorders, and are among the leading
contributors to preventable death. This selective review outlines and highlights the need for …

Moderators of the association between peer and target adolescent substance use

S Marschall-Lévesque, N Castellanos-Ryan, F Vitaro… - Addictive …, 2014 - Elsevier
Associating with substance using peers is generally considered as one of the most important
predictors of adolescent substance use. However, peer association does not affect all …

Genetic contributors to variation in alcohol consumption vary by race/ethnicity in a large multi-ethnic genome-wide association study

E Jorgenson, KK Thai, TJ Hoffmann, LC Sakoda… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Alcohol consumption is a complex trait determined by both genetic and environmental
factors, and is correlated with the risk of alcohol use disorders. Although a small number of …

Drinking, smoking, and educational achievement: cross-lagged associations from adolescence to adulthood

A Latvala, RJ Rose, L Pulkkinen, DM Dick… - Drug and alcohol …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Adolescent substance use is associated with lower educational achievement
but the directionality of the association remains uncertain. We analyzed data on drinking …

Using polygenic scores for identifying individuals at increased risk of substance use disorders in clinical and population samples

PB Barr, A Ksinan, J Su, EC Johnson, JL Meyers… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-wide, polygenic risk scores (PRS) have emerged as a useful way to characterize
genetic liability. There is growing evidence that PRS may prove useful for early identification …

ALDH2 is associated to alcohol dependence and is the major genetic determinant of “daily maximum drinks” in a GWAS study of an isolated rural chinese sample

EE Quillen, XD Chen, L Almasy, F Yang… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol dependence (AD) is a moderately heritable phenotype with a small number of
known risk genes mapped via linkage or candidate gene studies. We considered 313 males …

Association of Protein Phosphatase PPM1G With Alcohol Use Disorder and Brain Activity During Behavioral Control in a Genome-Wide Methylation Analysis

B Ruggeri, C Nymberg, E Vuoksimaa… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The genetic component of alcohol use disorder is substantial, but monozygotic
twin discordance indicates a role for nonheritable differences that could be mediated by …

Adolescent alcohol use is positively associated with later depression in a population-based UK cohort

AC Edwards, J Heron, DM Dick, M Hickman… - Journal of studies on …, 2014 - jsad.com
Objective: Alcohol use and internalizing problems are often positively associated during
adolescence and adulthood. However, the basis of this relationship remains poorly …

Polygenic risk for alcohol dependence associates with alcohol consumption, cognitive function and social deprivation in a population‐based cohort

TK Clarke, AH Smith, J Gelernter, HR Kranzler… - Addiction …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol dependence is frequently co‐morbid with cognitive impairment. The relationship
between these traits is complex as cognitive dysfunction may arise as a consequence of …

Polygenic contributions to alcohol use and alcohol use disorders across population-based and clinically ascertained samples

EC Johnson, S Sanchez-Roige, L Acion… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Background Studies suggest that alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorders have
distinct genetic backgrounds. Methods We examined whether polygenic risk scores (PRS) …