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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2018 Aug 9;113(11):2107–2115. doi: 10.1111/add.14366

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Clinical Probands Siblings** Controls
Sample size 1463 1399 904
Sex [percent female] 254 [17.36%] 651 [46.53%] 263 [20.09%]
Race/Ethnicity*
  African-American 119 [8.13%] 81 [5.79%] 47 [5.12%]
  Non-Latino Caucasian 605 [41.35%] 476 [33.81%] 386 [42.70%]
  Multi-ethnic 233 [15.93%] 181 [12.94%] 257 [28.43%]
  Other/Unreported 506 [34.59%] 661 [47.25%] 214 [23.67%]
Age at ascertainment 16.33 [1.29] 17.50 [3.45] 16.50 [3.17]
Age at death or at end of observation period 31.49 [4.22] 32.17 [5.31] 35.44 [4.82]
Lifetime conduct disorder symptoms at ascertainment 5.36 [2.85] 2.51 [2.40] 1.31 [1.77]
Lifetime conduct disorder diagnosis at ascertainment* 1198 [64.34%] 508 [27.28%] 156 [8.38%]
Substance Dependence diagnosis ascertainment* 1127 [70.44%] 409 [25.56%] 64 [4.00%]
Total substance abuse/dependence symptoms across substance at ascertainment 17.51 [12.32] 6.71 [9.75] 1.32 [3.33]
Number of substances used > 5 times at ascertainment 3.92 [1.94] 2.24 [2.00] 1.06 [1.48]
Substance abuse/dependence vulnerability index at ascertainment 4.23 [2.09] 1.70 [1.80] 0.53 [1.08]

Note: Total substance abuse/dependence symptoms reflects the sum of symptom counts for multiple substances. Substance abuse/dependence vulnerability index reflects the total symptom count divided by the number of substances used greater than five times.

*

Number [percent of sample]

**

Siblings indicates siblings of clinical probands

Mean [standard deviation]

Participants aged 18 or above at assessment were assessed for conduct disorder symptoms retrospectively.