A. Alcohol Consumption

1. Buck PO, Abbey A, Saenz C.  Direct and indirect effects of alcohol consumption on intentions to use condoms.
2. Epler AJ, Sher KJ.  A prospective examination of abstention status and reasons for not drinking among college students.
3. Meeting Awardee - Howell D, Jacob T, Bucholz K, Sartor C, Wood P.  Drinking trajectories from adolescence to the mid-forties among alcohol dependent males.
4. Hunt-Carter EE, Slutske WS, Piasecki TM.  Characteristics and correlates of drinking to relieve hangover in a college sample.
5. Levitt A, Cooper ML, Albino A.  Attachment as a predictor of alcohol use and relationship problems in romantic relationships.
6. Martinez JA, Sher KJ, Wood PK, Rutledge PC.  Heavy drinking and enrollment patterns in first-generation college students.
7. Park A, Sher KJ, Krull JL.  Living arrangement and drinking during the transition to college.
8. Rutledge PC, Sher KJ.  Precollege predictors of heavy drinking during the first semester of college.
9. Meeting Awardee - Warren M, Frost-Pineda K, Gold M.  Body mass index vs. alcohol use.

B. Externalizing Disorders

10. Cadoret, RJ.  Genetic and environmental factors in comorbidity of alcholism with illicit drug use, conduct disorder and ADHD.

11. Calvert W, Bucholz KK, Heath AC.  Comorbidity of alcohol use, delinquency, illicit drug use, and cigarette smoking in a group of adolescent female twins.

12. Meeting Awardee – Czarnkowski P.  Comorbidity of alcohol dependence and ADHD.

13. Fox L, Bierut L, Reich W, Bucholz K.  The effects of parental alcoholism and childhood conduct disorder symptoms on early-, middle-, and late-adolescence-onset alcoholism in young adults.

14. Haber JR, Jacob T, Heath AC.  Paternal alcoholism and offspring conduct disorder: evidence for the “common genes” hypotheses.

15. Hogan MA, Slutske WS, Cadoret RJ.  Do positive alcohol expectancies mediate the relation between delinquent behavior and alcohol use?  A study of 85,000 Iowa school children.

16. Todd RD.  Youth smoking, drinking and disruptive behavior disorders.

17. Waldron M, Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF, Slutske WS, Jacob T, Martin NG.  Maternal alcoholism and offspring conduct problems in children of Australian twins.

C. Linkage and Association Studies

18. Agrawal A, Heath AC, Pergadia M, Saccone S, Dick DM, Grant JD, Goate A, Wang J, Shears S, Montgomery G, Martin NG, Madden PAF.  Linkage findings for polydrug phenotypes from the Nicotine Addiction Genetics project.

19. Allen R, Wang JC, Budde JP, Hinrichs AL, Bertelsen S, Dick D, Bierut LJ.  Genetic analysis of the Reelin (RELN) gene with alcohol dependence and depression.

20. Bertelsen S, Bierut L, Hinrichs AL, Wang J, Dick D, Rice J, Foroud T, Edenberg H, Crowe R, Hesselbrock V, Nurnberger J, Schuckit M, Porjesz B, Begleiter H, Goate AM.  Linkage analyses in the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism sample using multiple interview assessments.

21. Budde JP, Wang JC, Allen R, Hinrichs AL, Bertelsen S, Dick D, Bierut LJ, Goate AM.  Genetic analysis of the Neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecule (NRCAM) gene with alcohol dependence and depression.

22. Dick DM, Goate A, Foroud T, Hesselbrock V, Bierut L, Rice J, Wang J, Hinrichs A, Bertelsen S, Madden PAF, Heath AC, Agrawal A, Pergadia M, Saccone S, COGA & NAG collaborators.  Linkage findings on chromosome 2 suggest a gene predisposing to multiple behavioral undercontrol phenotypes.

23. Hinrichs A, Wang J, Bertelsen S, Dick D, Budde J, Allen R, Stock H, Crowe R, Hesselbrock V, Schuckit M, Begleiter H, Edenberg H, Teich T, Bierut LJ, Goate AM.  Genetic association of TAS2R16 taste receptor on chromosome 7 with alcoholism.

D. Methodologic Studies

24. Jacob T.  Reliability of lifetime drinking history among alcohol dependent men.

25. Lewis CL.  Reporting inconsistencies of alcohol symptomatology.

26. Risk NK, Spitznagel EL, Price RK.  Exact logistic regression and tree-based regression: Alternative methods for estimating G-E models.

E. Other Biological Studies

27. Meeting Awardee - Sassoon SA, Rosenbloom MJ, O'Reilly A, Raassi C, Jack A, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV.  Effects of comorbid alcoholism and HIV on visuospatial construction, memory, and organizational strategy.

28. Meeting Awardee - Warren M, Janssen S, Hayes R, Gold M, Larner S, Wang K.  αII-Spectrin and βII-spectrin breakdown after ethanol treatment in PC12 cells.

F. Other Comorbidity

 

29. Caspers K.  Comorbidity of attachment insecurity and adult psychopathology: Implications for treatment

30. Duncan A, Neuman R, Kramer J, Kuperman S, Hesselbrock V, Bucholz K.  Lifetime comorbidity of alcohol dependence and bulimia nervosa.

31. Neuman RJ, Bucholz KK, Rice JP, Sun L, Hesselbrock V, Crowe R, Schuckit M, Begleiter H, Kuperman S, Porjesz B, Nurnberger JI, Bierut L.  Typologies of comorbid disorders in alcohol dependence.

32. Pagan JL, Dick DM, Rose R, Viken R, Pulkkinen L, Jaakko K.  Predicting substance use from multiple informant ratings of behavioral and emotional problems.

33. Pedersen SL, Thompsen DM, McCarthy DM.  Self-esteem and the alcohol risk process.

34. Pergadia ML, Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF.  Anxiety sensitivity and alcohol use behaviors in adolescent twin boys.

35. Philibert R, Black D, Adams WJ, Langbehn D, Caspers K, Cadoret RJ.  Clinical characteristics and biological determinants of pathological gambling in the Iowa adoption studies.

36. Grant JD, Heath AC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF, Statham DJ, Martin NG.  Genetic basis for comorbidity of alcohol and marijuana dependence.

37. Scherrer JF, Xian H, Grant JD, Bucholz KK.  The magnitude of genetic and environmental influences common to comorbid alcoholism and marijuana problem use is stable across diagnostic phenotypes.

38. Vedeniapin A, Anokhin A, Heath AC, Burk C.  Alcohol, tobacco and drug use in midwest high school graduates: Patterns and comorbidities.

G. Personality

39. Grekin ER, Sher KJ, Wood PK.  Personality and substance dependence: Modeling substance-specific traits.

40. Meeting Awardee - Ralevski E, Rounsaville B, Poling J, Nich C, Levinson C, Petrakis I.  Personality disorders as predictors of treatment outcome in a sample of alcohol dependent veterans with comorbid axis 1 disorders.

41. Stepp SD, Trull TJ, Sher KJ.  Investigating comorbidity: Borderline personality and substance use disorders.

42. Larkins JM, Sher KJ.  Personality effects on heavy alcohol involvement among college students as mediated by reasons for drinking.

H. Physical Health

43. Spinks R, Caspers K, Langbehn D, Yucuis R, McKirgan B, Cadoret R. Comorbid health conditions at mid-life in the Iowa adoptees.
44. Yakimo R, Bucholz KK, Grazier KL. Correlates of self-reported pain in a community sample.

I. Smoking

45. Fu Q, Heath AC, Bucholz KK, True WR, Eisen SE. Comorbidity between alcohol and nicotine dependence: The genetic contributions from antisocial personality disorder and major depression.
46. Thompsen DM, Pedersen SL, McCarthy DM. Implicit and explicit cognitions about alcohol and smoking.
47. Vedeniapin A, Rohrbaugh J, Goebel J, Sirevaag E, Goldenberg T, Ryan C, Heath AC. Smoking while drinking: Combined effects on the cardiovascular system.
48. Volk HE, Scherrer JF, Bucholz KK, Heath AC, Jacob T, True WR. Evidence for specificity of transmission of alcohol and nicotine dependence in an offspring of twins design.

J. Trauma/PTSD/Suicide/Depression

49. Bagge CL, Sher KJ, Epler AJ. Alcohol and suicidality: Moderation by age, sex, and depression in a national dataset of adolescents.

50. McCutcheon VV, Heath AC, Nelson EC, Bucholz KK, Madden PAF, Martin NG. Associations among parental alcohol problems, early trauma, and offspring depression and panic symptoms: Variations by comorbidity status.

51. Todorov A, Grant JD, Scherrer JF, Bucholz KK. PTSD & substance use disorders in the VETS panel.

52. Meeting Awardee - Tucci AM, Kerr-Correa F, Formigoni MLOS. Correlation between psychiatric co-morbidities and childhood abuse/neglect in alcohol dependent patients.

53. Xian H. The role of post-traumatic stress disorder in explaining the association between combat trauma and lifetime nicotine and alcohol dependence.

L. MARC-Related

54. Hudgens RW. —“Dr. Guze: His Career and Achievements.”
55. “Dr. Theodore Reich: His Career and Achievements.”
56. Heath AC – “Midwest Alcoholism Research Center (MARC) Overview.”
57. Slutske WS – “MARC Project 4: Australian children of alcoholic female twins.”
58. Todd RD – “MARC Project 5: Molecular epidemiology of alcoholism and comorbid disorders.”
59. Piasecki T, Sher K – “MARC Project 6: Conjoint alcohol and tobacco use: An ecological study.”
60. Wood P, Sher K, Rutledge P. Early college alcohol consumption patterns, class schedule and academic performance.

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