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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2011 May 6;156(5):561–568. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31196

Table 3.

Bivariate Correlations Between Depression and Substance Use Disorders

Alcohol Disorders Drug Disorders
Phenotypic* Genetic* Environmental* Phenotypic Genetic Environmental
MDD 0.293, p=6.4×10−8 0.582, p=0.007 0.130, p=0.316 0.251, p=0.002 0.303, p=0.219 0.211, p=0.394
Recurrent MDD 0.199, p=0.001 0.587, p=0.006 −0.055, p=0.718 0.190, p=0.029 0.442, p=0.080 −0.074, p=0.788
Early MDD^ 0.284, p=9.1×10−6 0.593, p=0.012 0.080, p=0.634 0.202, p=0.026 0.096, p=0.702 0.336, p=0.292
Early-Recurrent MDD 0.245, p=3.5×10−4 0.631, p=0.006 −0.038, p=0.837 0.208, p=0.033 0.254, p=0.314 0.151, p=0.655
*

Phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations between major depressive disorders and alcohol or drug disorders;

^

onset of depression before age 25; MDD = major depressive disorder