Association of parental substance misuse with offspring substance misuse and criminality: a genetically informed register-based study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings from a large offspring-of-siblings study indicate that shared genetic influences mostly explain the associations between parental substance misuse and both offspring substance misuse and criminality, but we also found evidence for the contribution of environmental factors shared by members of nuclear and extended families.
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Source: Psychological Medicine - June 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Latvala A, Kuja-Halkola R, D'Onofrio BM, Jayaram-Lindström N, Larsson H, Lichtenstein P Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research