Citation

Heath AC, Martin NG. Alcohol Alcohol. Suppl. 1991; 1: 141-145.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1845530

Abstract

Compared to controls, sons of alcoholics have been reported to exhibit decreased sensitivity to a challenge dose of alcohol (e.g. a smaller increase in body-sway: Schuckit, 1985). We reanalyze alcohol challenge data from a general population sample of Australian twin pairs (Martin et al., 1985a, b). By fitting direction-of-causation models, we show that in males differences in body-sway are largely a consequence, not a cause, of differences in alcohol consumption patterns. In females, direction-of-causation could not be resolved.

Language: en