Journal article
Density and Dichotomous Family History Measures of Alcohol Use Disorder as Predictors of Behavioral and Neural Phenotypes: A Comparative Study Across Gender and Race/Ethnicity
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, Vol.44(3), pp.697-710
03/2020
DOI: 10.1111/acer.14280
PMCID: PMC8357185
PMID: 31957047
Abstract
Background: Family history (FH) is an important risk factor for the development of alcohol use disorder (AUD). A variety of dichotomous and density measures of FH have been used to predict alcohol outcomes; yet, a systematic comparison of these FH measures is lacking. We compared 4 density and 4 commonly used dichotomous FH measures and examined variations by gender and race/ethnicity in their associations with age of onset of regular drinking, parietal P3 amplitude to visual target, and likelihood of developing AUD. Methods: Data from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) were utilized to compute the density and dichotomous measures. Only subjects and their family members with DSM-5 AUD diagnostic information obtained through direct interviews using the Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism (SSAGA) were included in the study. Area under receiver operating characteristic curves were used to compare the diagnostic accuracy of FH measures at classifying DSM-5 AUD diagnosis. Logistic and linear regression models were used to examine associations of FH measures with alcohol outcomes. Results: Density measures had greater diagnostic accuracy at classifying AUD diagnosis, whereas dichotomous measures presented diagnostic accuracy closer to random chance. Both dichotomous and density measures were significantly associated with likelihood of AUD, early onset of regular drinking, and low parietal P3 amplitude, but density measures presented consistently more robust associations. Further, variations in these associations were observed such that among males (vs. females) and Whites (vs. Blacks), associations of alcohol outcomes with density (vs. dichotomous) measures were greater in magnitude. Conclusions: Density (vs. dichotomous) measures seem to present more robust associations with alcohol outcomes. However, associations of dichotomous and density FH measures with different alcohol outcomes (behavioral vs. neural) varied across gender and race/ethnicity. These findings have great applicability for alcohol research examining FH of AUD.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Density and Dichotomous Family History Measures of Alcohol Use Disorder as Predictors of Behavioral and Neural Phenotypes: A Comparative Study Across Gender and Race/Ethnicity
- Creators
- Gayathri Pandey - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityMichael J. Seay - University of California, Los AngelesJacquelyn L. Meyers - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityDavid B. Chorlian - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityAshwini K. Pandey - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityChella Kamarajan - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityMorton Ehrenberg - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityDaniel Pitti - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversitySivan Kinreich - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences UniversityStacey Subbie‐Saenz de Viteri - From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences(GP, JLM, DBC, AKP, CK, ME, DP, S Kinreich, SS‐SV, BP) Downstate Medical Center State University of New York Brooklyn New YorkLaura Acion - University of IowaAndrey Anokhin - Washington University in St. LouisLance Bauer - University of ConnecticutGrace Chan - University of ConnecticutHoward Edenberg - Indiana UniversityVictor Hesselbrock - University of ConnecticutSamuel Kuperman - University of IowaVivia V. McCutcheon - Washington University in St. LouisKathleen K. Bucholz - Washington University in St. LouisMarc Schuckit - University of California San DiegoBernice Porjesz - SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, Vol.44(3), pp.697-710
- DOI
- 10.1111/acer.14280
- PMID
- 31957047
- PMCID
- PMC8357185
- NLM abbreviation
- Alcohol Clin Exp Res
- ISSN
- 0145-6008
- eISSN
- 1530-0277
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000026, name: National Institute on Drug Abuse, award: Grant U10AA008401; DOI: 10.13039/100000027, name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, award: Grant U10AA008401
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2020
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984293657302771
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