Polygenic risk, family cohesion, and adolescent aggression in Mexican American and European American families: Developmental pathways to alcohol use. 2018

Kit K Elam, and Laurie Chassin, and Danielle Pandika
Arizona State University.

Poor family cohesion and elevated adolescent aggression are associated with greater alcohol use in adolescence and early adulthood. In addition, evocative gene-environment correlations (rGEs) can underlie the interplay between offspring characteristics and negative family functioning, contributing to substance use. Gene-environment interplay has rarely been examined in racial/ethnic minority populations. The current study examined adolescents' polygenic risk scores for aggression in evocative rGEs underlying aggression and family cohesion during adolescence, their contributions to alcohol use in early adulthood (n = 479), and differences between Mexican American and European American subsamples. Results suggest an evocative rGE between polygenic risk scores, aggression, and low family cohesion, with aggression contributing to low family cohesion over time. Greater family cohesion was associated with lower levels of alcohol use in early adulthood and this association was stronger for Mexican American adolescents compared to European American adolescents. Results are discussed with respect to integration of culture and racial/ethnic minority samples into genetic research and implications for alcohol use.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D005195 Family Relations Behavioral, psychological, and social relations among various members of the nuclear family and the extended family. Family Relationship,Family Dynamics,Family Relationships,Dynamic, Family,Dynamics, Family,Family Dynamic,Family Relation,Relation, Family,Relations, Family,Relationship, Family,Relationships, Family
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000066608 Underage Drinking Consumption of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES by persons under the legal drinking age. Adolescent Alcohol Drinking,Adolescent Alcohol Intake,Adolescent Alcohol Consumption,Adolescent Alcohol Use,Adolescent Drinking,Legal Drinking Age,Minimum Drinking Age,Minimum Legal Drinking Age,Teen Drinking,Teenage Drinking,Underage Alcohol Consumption,Underage Alcohol Use,Youth Alcohol Consumption,Youth Drinking,Alcohol Consumption, Adolescent,Alcohol Consumption, Underage,Alcohol Consumption, Youth,Alcohol Drinking, Adolescent,Alcohol Intake, Adolescent,Alcohol Use, Adolescent,Alcohol Use, Underage,Drinking Age, Legal,Drinking Age, Minimum,Drinking Ages, Legal,Drinking Ages, Minimum,Drinking, Adolescent,Drinking, Teen,Drinking, Teenage,Drinking, Underage,Drinking, Youth,Legal Drinking Ages,Minimum Drinking Ages
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000294 Adolescent Behavior Any observable response or action of an adolescent. Behavior, Adolescent,Adolescent Behaviors,Behaviors, Adolescent
D000374 Aggression Behavior which may be manifested by destructive and attacking action which is verbal or physical, by covert attitudes of hostility or by obstructionism. Aggressions
D000428 Alcohol Drinking Behaviors associated with the ingesting of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, including social drinking. Alcohol Consumption,Alcohol Intake,Drinking, Alcohol,Alcohol Drinking Habits,Alcohol Drinking Habit,Alcohol Intakes,Consumption, Alcohol,Drinking Habit, Alcohol,Habit, Alcohol Drinking,Habits, Alcohol Drinking,Intake, Alcohol
D014481 United States A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.

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