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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2019 Jan 1;114(4):687–697. doi: 10.1111/add.14512

Table 4. Associations between cannabis initiation polygenic score and perceived peer cannabis use.

The PRS that was most strongly associated with cannabis use trajectories is reported (pT < 0.1; see Table 2). Results in bold are significant predictors in the model (α < 0.05).

None vs. A few None vs. Most/All A few vs. Most/All
Beta SE p Beta SE p Beta SE p
Cannabis Use PRS 0.021 0.083 0.799 0.324 0.129 0.012 0.184 0.111 0.096
Sex 0.419 0.145 0.004 0.528 0.222 0.018 0.073 0.201 0.717
Age at Baseline 0.099 0.045 0.026 0.315 0.072 <0.001 0.134 0.061 0.028
Age at Last Assessment −0.021 0.033 0.529 −0.124 0.052 0.018 −0.055 0.044 0.212
Principal component 1 −380.544 255.575 0.137 −407.265 95.435 <0.001 116.519 309.088 0.706
Principal component 2 −53.450 135.154 0.692 −261.639 125.320 0.037 −309.740 188.027 0.099
Principal component 3 5.692 52.102 0.913 93.302 63.840 0.144 82.689 67.168 0.218
Array design 1 0.365 0.181 0.043 −0.416 0.269 0.122 −0.631 0.226 0.005
Array design 2 0.402 0.382 0.292 −0.846 0.672 0.208 −0.715 0.582 0.219

Note: Array 1 and Array 2 are two dummy-coded variables included in the model to control for the genotyping array types. Principal components reflect genetic ancestry.