ArticleAJS; American journal of sociology2015
Peer Influence, Genetic Propensity, and Binge Drinking: A Natural Experiment and a Replication.
Article in AJS; American journal of sociology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Systematic Review of Polygenic Gene-Environment Interaction in Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cannabis Use.Behavior genetics · 2019Pooled it
- Peer influence on obesity: Evidence from a natural experiment of a gene-environment interaction.Social science research · 2021Trial
- Commensality and academic performance: measuring peer acceptance among college students.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Partners in Health: Investigating Social Genetic Effects Among Married and Cohabiting Couples.Behavior genetics · 2023Article
- Gene-by-peer-environment interaction effects on cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among US high school students of European Ancestry.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Incarceration, polygenic risk, and depressive symptoms among males in late adulthood.Social science research · 2022Article
- The Genome-Wide Study of Human Social Behavior and Its Application in Sociology.Frontiers in sociology · 2019Review
- A systematic review: Candidate gene and environment interaction on alcohol use and misuse among adolescents and young adults.The American journal on addictions · 2018Review
- The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Sweetened ethanol drinking during social isolation: enhanced intake, resistance to genetic heterogeneity and the emergence of a distinctive drinking pattern in adolescent mice.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2017Article
- Opportunities and challenges of big data for the social sciences: The case of genomic data.Social science research · 2016Article
- Achieved educational attainment, inherited genetic endowment for education, and obesity.Biodemography and social biologyArticle
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Abstract
The authors draw data from the College Roommate Study (ROOM) and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to investigate gene-environment interaction effects on youth binge drinking. In ROOM, the environmental influence was measured by the precollege drinking behavior of randomly assigned roommates. Random assignment safeguards against friend selection and removes the threat of gene-environment correlation that makes gene-environment interaction effects difficult to interpret. On average, being randomly assigned a drinking peer as opposed to a nondrinking peer increased college binge drinking by 0.5-1.0 episodes per month, or 20%-40% the average amount of binge drinking. However, this peer influence was found only among youths with a medium level of genetic propensity for alcohol use; those with either a low or high genetic propensity were not influenced by peer drinking. A replication of the findings is provided in data drawn from Add Health. The study shows that gene-environment interaction analysis can uncover social-contextual effects likely to be missed by traditional sociological approaches.
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