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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Psychiatry. 2011 Oct 4;17(4):445–450. doi: 10.1038/mp.2011.124

Table 1.

Characteristics of Adult Subjects

Study*
COGA
N=1800
COGEND
N=2666
FSCD
N=1166

Sex, N (%)
 Male 971 (53.9) 1,018 (38.2) 579 (49.7)
 Female 829 (46.1) 1,648 (61.8) 587 (50.3)

Age, years
 Mean ± sd 43.1 ± 11.4 36.5 ± 5.5 37.0 ± 8.8
 Range 18.0–79.0 25.0–47.0 18.0–60.0

Race, N (%)
 European American 1353 (75.2) 1981 (74.3) 558 (47.9)
 African American 447 (24.8) 685 (25.7) 608 (52.1)

DSM-IV Alcohol Dependence
 Diagnosis, N (%) 1139 (63.3) 612 (23.0) 547 (46.9)

FTND Nicotine Dependence
 Never Smokers, N (%) 509 (30.3) 0 505 (43.3)
 Nicotine Dependent, N (%) 803 (47.9) 1407 (52.8) 445 (38.2)
 Not Nicotine Dependent, N (%) 366 (21.8) 1259 (47.2) 216 (18.5)

DSM-IV Cocaine Dependence
 Diagnosis, N (%) 481 (26.7) 219 (8.2) 551 (47.3)

rs1229984**
AA 5 (0/5) 6 (0/6) 1 (0/1)
AG 96 (38/58) 162 (21/141) 51 (20/31)
GG 1699 (1101/598) 2498 (591/1907) 1114 (527/587)
*

COGA: Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism

COGEND: Collaborative Genetic Study of Nicotine Dependence

FSCD: Family Study of Cocaine Dependence

**

Total N (Case n/Control n)