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- Title
Novelty seeking as a moderator of familial risk for alcohol dependence.
- Authors
Grucza, Richard A; Robert Cloninger, C; Bucholz, Kathleen K; Constantino, John N; Schuckit, Marc I; Dick, Danielle M; Bierut, Laura J
- Abstract
Disinhibitory personality traits such as high novelty seeking (NS) are moderately heritable, and individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) frequently exhibit such traits. However, recent studies have cast doubt on the supposition that such traits are true familial risk factors for SUD and particularly for alcohol dependence. Another possibility is that familial risk interacts with personality-associated risk, in which case the association between personality and familial risk might depend on sample composition, accounting for the lack of consensus among studies to date. We examined this possibility by analyzing the association between NS and alcohol dependence in individuals at intermediate and high levels of familial risk for alcohol dependence.
- Publication
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 2006, Vol 30, Issue 7, p1176
- ISSN
0145-6008
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00133.x