Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0036341 (schizophrenia)
 60,220 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

Gender differences in the specificity of drug versus alcohol transmission were examined among 201 opioid addicts and their 877 first-degree relatives using direct interviews and a structured family history method based on the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Research Diagnostic Criteria. A strong association of parental alcoholism with alcoholism among the proband addicts was found, suggesting some specificity for drug versus alcohol abuse. We also found that among the 477 siblings, those with alcoholism alone did not have parents with drug abuse and those parents with drug abuse did not have children with alcoholism alone. Rates of parental alcoholism were higher in alcoholic female than in alcoholic male probands, suggesting greater female "loading" was needed in order to become alcoholic. This increased loading in women was also found among the siblings, but alcoholic parents appeared to transmit a nonspecific tendency for either drug or alcohol abuse to their female children. Thus, it may take a greater "dose" of parental transmission for a woman to become a substance abuser, and transmission of alcoholism may be specific in men, but not in women.
 ...
PMID:Gender differences in the specificity of alcoholism transmission among the relatives of opioid addicts. 186 67

Recognition of maternal alcoholism as a risk factor for mental illness in adult offspring is important. Using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), adult offspring of a clinical sample of alcoholic mothers were assessed for selected lifetime psychiatric disorders. Elevated adjusted odds ratio (OR) of alcohol abuse/dependence (OR 6.18, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.0-19.02), and drug abuse/dependence (OR 3.75, 95% CI 1.13-12.34) were observed for daughters of alcoholic mothers compared with a group of women who reported no history of alcoholism in their parents. Prevalence rates of alcohol abuse/dependence, drug abuse/dependence, affective disorders, general anxiety disorder, panic disorder and schizophrenia were higher in sons of alcoholic mothers than in a male comparison sample who reported no history of parental alcoholism, however, these increases were not statistically significant.
 ...
PMID:Prevalence of mental illnesses in adult offspring of alcoholic mothers. 805 39