Maes H H, Neale M C, Martin N G, Heath A C, Eaves L J
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
Twin Res. 1999 Jun;2(2):169-79. doi: 10.1375/136905299320566031.
Religious attendance has been shown to correlate negatively with alcohol use. We investigated whether this relationship is driven by genetic or environmental factors. Data on frequency of church attendance and frequency of alcohol use were obtained from twins and their families in the Virginia 30,000 study. A comprehensive bivariate model of family resemblance was fitted to the data using Mx. This model is described in detail. Results indicate that genetic factors primarily account for the relationship between alcohol and church attendance in males, whilst shared environmental factors, including cultural transmission and genotype-environment covariance, are stronger determinants of this association in females.
宗教活动参与度已被证明与饮酒呈负相关。我们调查了这种关系是由遗传因素还是环境因素驱动的。在弗吉尼亚30000研究中，从双胞胎及其家庭获取了关于教堂礼拜频率和饮酒频率的数据。使用Mx软件对数据拟合了一个全面的家庭相似性双变量模型。该模型有详细描述。结果表明，遗传因素主要解释了男性饮酒与教堂礼拜之间的关系，而包括文化传播和基因型 - 环境协方差在内的共享环境因素，在女性中是这种关联的更强决定因素。
