Local area disadvantage and gambling involvement and disorder: Evidence for gene-environment correlation and interaction.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has demonstrated that local area characteristics (such as disadvantage and gambling outlet density) and genetic risk factors are associated with gambling involvement and disordered gambling. These 2 lines of research were brought together in the present study by examining the extent to which genetic contributions to individual differences in gambling involvement and disorder contributed to being exposed to, and were also accentuated by, local area disadvantage. Participants were members of the national community-based Australian Twin Registry who completed a telephone interview in which the past-year frequency of gambling and symptoms of disordered gambling were assessed. Indicators of local area disadvantage were based on census data matched to the participants' postal c

SUBMITTER: Slutske WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4573820 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature