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Inheritance of alcohol abuse. Cross-fostering analysis of adopted men.
The inheritance of alcoholism was studied in 862 Swedish men adopted by nonrelatives at an early age. Both the congenital and postnatal backgrounds of the adoptees modify their risk for alcohol…
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Swedish normative data on personality using the Temperament and Character Inventory.
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Childhood personality predicts alcohol abuse in young adults.
TLDR
High novelty-seeking and low harm avoidance were most strongly predictive of early-onset alcohol abuse; these two childhood variables alone distinguished boys who had nearly 20-fold differences in their risk of alcohol abuse.
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Genetic heterogeneity and the classification of alcoholism.
TLDR
Empirical findings about sex differences, ages of onset, associated personality traits, and longitudinal course are described in a series of adoption and family studies in Sweden and the United States.
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Type I and Type II Alcoholism: An Update
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A commonly cited alcoholism typology was developed from the findings of a study of Swedish adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents, and it was demonstrated that type I and type II alcoholics also differ in characteristic personality traits as well as in certain neurophysiological markers.
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Bipolar disorder. III: Harm avoidance a risk factor for suicide attempts.
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Age of onset, HA, PS, gender and family history of suicide had a moderate to very strong effect on suicide attempts in bipolar patients.
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Maternal inheritance of alcohol abuse. Cross-fostering analysis of adopted women.
TLDR
There was a threefold excess of alcohol abusers among the adopted daughters of alcoholic biological mothers compared with other daughters, confirming the heterogeneity among alcoholics noted in earlier work with adopted sons, which found that the latter type of criminal alcoholics also had no excess of alcoholic mothers.
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Predisposition to petty criminality in Swedish adoptees. II. Cross-fostering analysis of gene-environment interaction.
TLDR
The interaction of congenital and postnatal antecedents of criminality was studied in 862 Swedish men adopted at an early age by nonrelatives and found low social status alone was not sufficient to lead to criminality, but did increase risk in combination with specific types of genetic predisposition.
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Predisposition to petty criminality in Swedish adoptees. I. Genetic and environmental heterogeneity.
TLDR
The inheritance of criminality was studied in 862 Swedish men and adopted by nonrelatives at an early age, finding that different genetic and environmental antecedents influenced the development of criminality, depending on whether or not there was associated alcohol abuse.
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Personality antecedents of alcoholism in a national area probability sample
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It is found that harm avoidance inhibits the initiation and frequency of drinking, but increases the risk of developing problems once frequent drinking has begun, and novelty seeking increases the initiation of drinking and the probabilities of frequent and problem drinking.
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