Alcoholism and Teetotalism in Blood Relatives of Abstaining Alcoholics

Lucero, Rubel J.; Jensen, Karl F.; Ramsey, C

doi:10.15288/qjsa.1971.32.183

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“…adoption and other parent-offspring). Indeed, in Cotton’s detailed review of the 39 earlier studies on the familial incidence of alcoholism, only two (Bleuler, 1955; Lucero et al 1971) – both based on quite small samples – report rates on grandparents. We uncovered one further small sample study of AUD across three generations (Kaij & Dock, 1975).…”

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Transmission of alcohol use disorder across three generations: a Swedish National Study

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2017

Psychol. Med.

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The transmission of AUD in Sweden across three generations is relatively stable. An orderly pattern of resemblance is seen with correlations declining by approximately 50% between first and second, and second and third-degree relatives. While the transmission of risk from affected male and female relatives does not differ, we find consistent evidence for greater resemblance in same-sex v. opposite-sex across generational pairs of relatives.

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