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PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 35, 期 8, 页码 1133-1144出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291705004770
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- NIAAA NIH HHS [AA00175, R01 AA009367, AA09367] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDA NIH HHS [R01 DA013240, DA13240, DA05147, R01 DA005147, R37 DA005147] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R21 MH065137-02, MH65137, R21 MH065137-04, R21 MH065137-05, R21 MH065137-01, R21 MH065137, R21 MH065137-03] Funding Source: Medline
Background. Research has documented high levels of co-morbidity among childhood externalizing disorders, but its etiology remains in dispute. Specifically, although all behavior genetic studies of the etiology of the co-occurrence of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and conduct disorder (CD) agree that genetic factors are important, differences exist across studies in the relative weight assigned to genetic, shared environmental factors (i.e. factors that increase similarity among family members), and non-shared environmental factors (i.e. factors that decrease similarity among family members). Because heritability estimates can vary across informants, we used a biometric informant-effects model to determine whether these discrepancies were a function of systematic differences in maternal and child informant reports of ADHD, CD, and ODD. Method. We studied 1782 11-year-old twins from the Minnesota Twin Family Study. Symptom counts for each disorder were obtained from interviews administered to twins and their mothers. We fit a model that allowed us to examine, both across and within informants, the genetic and environmental contributions to the co-occurrence among ADHD, CD, and ODD. Results. The results revealed that the co-occurrence among the disorders common to maternal and child informant reports was influenced largely by shared environmental forces. Genetic factors also contributed, though their impact was only marginally significant. In contrast, the co-occurrence unique to each informant was influenced exclusively by either genetic or non-shared environmental factors. Conclusions. Such findings offer additional evidence that shared environmental factors are important to the co-morbidity among ADHD, CD, and ODD, and highlight the necessity of considering informant effects when drawing conclusions about the origins of co-morbidity from analyses of genetically informative data.
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