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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2013 Apr;16(2):525–534. doi: 10.1017/thg.2013.11

TABLE 5.

Estimates of the Proportion of Covariation in Risk for Disordered Gambling and Alcohol Use Disorder Attributed to Genetic and Environmental Factors

Alcohol use disorder phenotype Proportion of covariation between disordered gambling and alcohol use disorder
Additive genetic Unique environment
Full sample
DSM-IV alcohol dependencea 0.59 (0.32, 0.87) 0.41 (0.13, 0.69)
DSM-5 alcohol use disordera 0.44 (0.18, 0.69) 0.56 (0.31, 0.82)
DSM-IV AUD symptom countb 0.68 (0.58, 0.78) 0.32 (0.22, 0.42)
Men
DSM-IV alcohol dependencea 0.58 (0.23, 0.92) 0.43 (0.08, 0.77)
DSM-5 alcohol use disordera 0.40 (0.08, 0.71) 0.60 (0.29, 0.92)
DSM-IV AUD symptom countb 0.69 (0.56, 0.82) 0.31 (0.18, 0.44)
Women
DSM-IV alcohol dependencea 0.64 (0.16, 1.0) 0.36 (−0.12, 0.84)
DSM-5 alcohol use disordera 0.52 (0.07, 0.98) 0.48 (0.02, 0.93)
DSM-IV AUD symptom countb 0.66 (0.50, 0.82) 0.34 (0.18, 0.50)

Note:

a

Using categorical 1+ symptom phenotype of disordered gambling;

b

using continuous disordered gambling phenotype, 95% confidence intervals are in parentheses.