title: Genetic relationship between the addiction diagnosis in adults and their childhood measure of addiction liability.
abstract: Transmissible liability index (TLI), developed employing a high-risk design and item response theory, enables quantification of the latent trait of liability to drug use disorders (DUD) in children. TLI has been shown to have high heritability and predict DUD in young adulthood. This study extends prior research and determines the genetic contribution of DUD liability measured by TLI to adult liability as indexed by DUD diagnosis. The study utilizes data from a twin sample tracked from age 11 to age 25. In addition to confirming TLI's high heritability and predictive validity, it shows that the genetic component of variance in TLI assessed in childhood accounts for over half of the genetic variance in DUD diagnosis and the entire phenotypic relationship between the two liability measures. This validates TLI as an early measure of DUD liability and supports its utility in early-age genetic and other mechanistic studies of DUD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 3520 Forbes Ave. Suite 203, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA, mmv@pitt.edu.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vanyukov
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Irons
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kirisci
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neale
authors.forename: Ty
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ridenour
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tarter
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Galina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kirillova
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McGue
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Iacono
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000235:genetics; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics*; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic; D055815:Young Adult