Paternal alcoholism and offspring conduct disorder: evidence for the â•œcommon genesâ•š hypothesis

Paternal alcoholism and offspring conduct disorder: evidence for the 'common genes' hypothesis.

Not only are alcoholism and externalizing disorders frequently comorbid, they often co-occur in families across generations; for example, paternal alcoholism predicts offspring conduct disorder just as it does offspring alcoholism. To clarify this relationship, the current study examined the 'common genes' hypothesis utilizing a children-of-twins research design. Participants were male monozygo...

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Paternal alcoholism and offspring ADHD problems: a children of twins design.

OBJECTIVE A recent Children-of-Female-Twin design suggests that the association between maternal alcohol use disorder and offspring ADHD is due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors, such as prenatal nicotine exposure. We present here a complementary analysis using a Children-of-Male-Twin design examining the association between paternal alcoholism and offspring attention defici...

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P3 event-related potential amplitude and the risk for disinhibitory disorders in adolescent boys.

BACKGROUND The children of parents who abuse alcohol typically show reduced amplitude of the P3 event-related potential wave. We determined if this effect was present in a population-based sample of older adolescent boys, whether it was associated with paternal antisocial personality and drug use, and whether it appeared in youth with childhood externalizing and substance use disorders. METHO...