@article {455, title = {Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms}, journal = {Journal of the American Academy of Child \& Adolescent Psychiatry}, volume = {61}, year = {2022}, pages = {934{\textendash}945}, abstract = {

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the genetic architecture of internalizing symptoms in childhood and adolescence.

METHOD: In 22 cohorts, multiple univariate genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were performed using repeated assessments of internalizing symptoms, in a total of 64,561 children and adolescents between 3 and 18 years of age. Results were aggregated in meta-analyses that accounted for sample overlap, first using all available data, and then using subsets of measurements grouped by rater, age, and instrument.

RESULTS: The meta-analysis of overall internalizing symptoms (INToverall) detected no genome-wide significant hits and showed low single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) heritability (1.66\%, 95\% CI = 0.84-2.48

}, keywords = {anxiety, Depression, genetic epidemiology, molecular genetics, repeated measures}, doi = {10.1016/j.jaac.2021.11.035}, author = {Jami, Eshim S and Hammerschlag, Anke R and Ip, Hill F and Allegrini, Andrea G and Benyamin, Beben and Border, Richard and Diemer, Elizabeth W and Jiang, Chang and Karhunen, Ville and Lu, Yi and Lu, Qing and Mallard, Travis T and Mishra, Pashupati P and Nolte, Ilja M and Palviainen, Teemu and Peterson, Roseann E and Sallis, Hannah M and Shabalin, Andrey A and Tate, Ashley E and Thiering, Elisabeth and Vilor-Tejedor, Nat{\`a}lia and Wang, Carol and Zhou, Ang and Adkins, Daniel E and Alemany, Silvia and Ask, Helga and Chen, Qi and Corley, Robin P and Ehli, Erik A and Evans, Luke M and Havdahl, Alexandra and Hagenbeek, Fiona A and Hakulinen, Christian and Henders, Anjali K and Hottenga, Jouke Jan and Korhonen, Tellervo and Mamun, Abdullah and Marrington, Shelby and Neumann, Alexander and Rimfeld, Kaili and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Silberg, Judy L and van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Whipp, Alyce M and Tong, Xiaoran and Andreassen, Ole A and Boomsma, Dorret I and Brown, Sandra A and Burt, S Alexandra and Copeland, William and Dick, Danielle M and Harden, K Paige and Harris, Kathleen Mullan and Hartman, Catharina A and Heinrich, Joachim and Hewitt, John K and Hopfer, Christian and Hypponen, Elina and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Kaprio, Jaakko and Keltikangas-J{\"a}rvinen, Liisa and Klump, Kelly L and Krauter, Kenneth and Kuja-Halkola, Ralf and Larsson, Henrik and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Lichtenstein, Paul and Lundstr{\"o}m, Sebastian and Maes, Hermine H and Magnus, Per and Munaf{\`o}, Marcus R and Najman, Jake M and Nj{\o}lstad, P\aal R and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Pennell, Craig E and Plomin, Robert and Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted and Reynolds, Chandra and Rose, Richard J and Smolen, Andrew and Snieder, Harold and Stallings, Michael and Standl, Marie and Sunyer, Jordi and Tiemeier, Henning and Wadsworth, Sally J and Wall, Tamara L and Whitehouse, Andrew J O and Williams, Gail M and Ystr{\o}m, Eivind and Nivard, Michel G and Bartels, Meike and Middeldorp, Christel M} } @article {439, title = {DNA methylation signatures of aggression and closely related constructs: A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide studies across the lifespan}, journal = {Molecular Psychiatry}, volume = {26}, year = {2021}, pages = {2148{\textendash}2162}, abstract = {

DNA methylation profiles of aggressive behavior may capture lifetime cumulative effects of genetic, stochastic, and environmental influences associated with aggression. Here, we report the first large meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) of aggressive behavior (N = 15,324 participants). In peripheral blood samples of 14,434 participants from 18 cohorts with mean ages ranging from 7 to 68 years, 13 methylation sites were significantly associated with aggression (alpha = 1.2 $\times$ 10-7; Bonferroni correction). In cord blood samples of 2425 children from five cohorts with aggression assessed at mean ages ranging from 4 to 7 years, 83\% of these sites showed the same direction of association with childhood aggression (r = 0.7

}, doi = {10.1038/s41380-020-00987-x}, author = {van Dongen, Jenny and Hagenbeek, Fiona A and Suderman, Matthew and Roetman, Peter J and Sugden, Karen and Chiocchetti, Andreas G and Ismail, Khadeeja and Mulder, Rosa H and Hafferty, Jonathan D and Adams, Mark J and Walker, Rosie M and Morris, Stewart W and Lahti, Jari and K{\"u}pers, Leanne K and Escaramis, Georgia and Alemany, Silvia and Jan Bonder, Marc and Meijer, Mandy and Ip, Hill F and Jansen, Rick and Baselmans, Bart M L and Parmar, Priyanka and Lowry, Estelle and Streit, Fabian and Sirignano, Lea and Send, Tabea S and Frank, Josef and Jylh{\"a}v{\"a}, Juulia and Wang, Yunzhang and Mishra, Pashupati Prasad and Colins, Olivier F and Corcoran, David L and Poulton, Richie and Mill, Jonathan and Hannon, Eilis and Arseneault, Louise and Korhonen, Tellervo and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Felix, Janine F and Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J and Campbell, Archie and Czamara, Darina and Binder, Elisabeth and Corpeleijn, Eva and Gonzalez, Juan R and Grazuleviciene, Regina and Gutzkow, Kristine B and Evandt, Jorunn and Vafeiadi, Marina and Klein, Marieke and van der Meer, Dennis and Ligthart, Lannie and BIOS Consortium and Kluft, Cornelis and Davies, Gareth E and Hakulinen, Christian and Keltikangas-J{\"a}rvinen, Liisa and Franke, Barbara and Freitag, Christine M and Konrad, Kerstin and Hervas, Amaia and Fern{\'a}ndez-Rivas, Aranzazu and Vetro, Agnes and Raitakari, Olli and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Vermeiren, Robert and Strandberg, Timo and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri and Snieder, Harold and Witt, Stephanie H and Deuschle, Michael and Pedersen, Nancy L and H{\"a}gg, Sara and Sunyer, Jordi and Franke, Lude and Kaprio, Jaakko and Ollikainen, Miina and Moffitt, Terrie E and Tiemeier, Henning and van IJzendoorn, Marinus H and Relton, Caroline and Vrijheid, Martine and Sebert, Sylvain and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Caspi, Avshalom and Evans, Kathryn L and McIntosh, Andrew M and Bartels, Meike and Boomsma, Dorret I} } @article {437, title = {Genetic association study of childhood aggression across raters, instruments, and age}, journal = {Translational Psychiatry}, volume = {11}, year = {2021}, pages = {413}, abstract = {

Childhood aggressive behavior (AGG) has a substantial heritability of around 50\%. Here we present a genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) of childhood AGG, in which all phenotype measures across childhood ages from multiple assessors were included. We analyzed phenotype assessments for a total of 328 935 observations from 87 485 children aged between 1.5 and 18 years, while accounting for sample overlap. We also meta-analyzed within subsets of the data, i.e., within rater, instrument and age. SNP-heritability for the overall meta-analysis (AGGoverall) was 3.31\% (SE = 0.0038). We found no genome-wide significant SNPs for AGGoverall. The gene-based analysis returned three significant genes: ST3GAL3 (P = 1.6E-06), PCDH7 (P = 2.0E-06), and IPO13 (P = 2.5E-06). All three genes have previously been associated with educational traits. Polygenic scores based on our GWAMA significantly predicted aggression in a holdout sample of children (variance explained = 0.44\%) and in retrospectively assessed childhood aggression (variance explained = 0.20\%). Genetic correlations (rg) among rater-specific assessment of AGG ranged from rg = 0.46 between self- and teacher-assessment to rg = 0.81 between mother- and teacher-assessment. We obtained moderate-to-strong rgs with selected phenotypes from multiple domains, but hardly with any of the classical biomarkers thought to be associated with AGG. Significant genetic correlations were observed with most psychiatric and psychological traits (range [Formula: see text]: 0.19-1.00), except for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Aggression had a negative genetic correlation (rg = \ -0.5) with cognitive traits and age at first birth. Aggression was strongly genetically correlated with smoking phenotypes (range [Formula: see text]: 0.46-0.60). The genetic correlations between aggression and psychiatric disorders were weaker for teacher-reported AGG than for mother- and self-reported AGG. The current GWAMA of childhood aggression provides a powerful tool to interrogate the rater-specific genetic etiology of AGG.

}, doi = {10.1038/s41398-021-01480-x}, author = {Ip, Hill F and Van der Laan, Camiel M and Krapohl, Eva M L and Brikell, Isabell and S{\'a}nchez-Mora, Cristina and Nolte, Ilja M and St Pourcain, Beate and Bolhuis, Koen and Palviainen, Teemu and Zafarmand, Hadi and Colodro-Conde, Luc{\'\i}a and Gordon, Scott and Zayats, Tetyana and Aliev, Fazil and Jiang, Chang and Wang, Carol A and Saunders, Gretchen and Karhunen, Ville and Hammerschlag, Anke R and Adkins, Daniel E and Border, Richard and Peterson, Roseann E and Prinz, Joseph A and Thiering, Elisabeth and Sepp{\"a}l{\"a}, Ilkka and Vilor-Tejedor, Nat{\`a}lia and Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S and Day, Felix R and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Allegrini, Andrea G and Rimfeld, Kaili and Chen, Qi and Lu, Yi and Martin, Joanna and Soler Artigas, Mar{\'\i}a and Rovira, Paula and Bosch, Rosa and Espa{\~n}ol, Gemma and Ramos Quiroga, Josep Antoni and Neumann, Alexander and Ensink, Judith and Grasby, Katrina and Morosoli, Jos{\'e} J and Tong, Xiaoran and Marrington, Shelby and Middeldorp, Christel and Scott, James G and Vinkhuyzen, Anna and Shabalin, Andrey A and Corley, Robin and Evans, Luke M and Sugden, Karen and Alemany, Silvia and Sass, L{\ae}rke and Vinding, Rebecca and Ruth, Kate and Tyrrell, Jess and Davies, Gareth E and Ehli, Erik A and Hagenbeek, Fiona A and de Zeeuw, Eveline and van Beijsterveldt, Toos C E M and Larsson, Henrik and Snieder, Harold and Verhulst, Frank C and Amin, Najaf and Whipp, Alyce M and Korhonen, Tellervo and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Rose, Richard J and Uitterlinden, Andre G and Heath, Andrew C and Madden, Pamela and Haavik, Jan and Harris, Jennifer R and Helgeland, {\O}yvind and Johansson, Stefan and Knudsen, Gun Peggy S and Njolstad, Pal Rasmus and Lu, Qing and Rodriguez, Alina and Henders, Anjali K and Mamun, Abdullah and Najman, Jackob M and Brown, Sandy and Hopfer, Christian and Krauter, Kenneth and Reynolds, Chandra and Smolen, Andrew and Stallings, Michael and Wadsworth, Sally and Wall, Tamara L and Silberg, Judy L and Miller, Allison and Keltikangas-J{\"a}rvinen, Liisa and Hakulinen, Christian and Pulkki-R\aaback, Laura and Havdahl, Alexandra and Magnus, Per and Raitakari, Olli T and Perry, John R B and Llop, Sabrina and Lopez-Espinosa, Maria-Jose and B{\o}nnelykke, Klaus and Bisgaard, Hans and Sunyer, Jordi and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Arseneault, Louise and Standl, Marie and Heinrich, Joachim and Boden, Joseph and Pearson, John and Horwood, L John and Kennedy, Martin and Poulton, Richie and Eaves, Lindon J and Maes, Hermine H and Hewitt, John and Copeland, William E and Costello, Elizabeth J and Williams, Gail M and Wray, Naomi and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and McGue, Matt and Iacono, William and Caspi, Avshalom and Moffitt, Terrie E and Whitehouse, Andrew and Pennell, Craig E and Klump, Kelly L and Burt, S Alexandra and Dick, Danielle M and Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted and Martin, Nicholas G and Medland, Sarah E and Vrijkotte, Tanja and Kaprio, Jaakko and Tiemeier, Henning and Davey Smith, George and Hartman, Catharina A and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Casas, Miquel and Ribas{\'e}s, Marta and Lichtenstein, Paul and Lundstr{\"o}m, Sebastian and Plomin, Robert and Bartels, Meike and Nivard, Michel G and Boomsma, Dorret I} } @article {450, title = {Teacher-rated aggression and co-occurring behaviors and emotional problems among schoolchildren in four population-based European cohorts}, journal = {PLoS One}, volume = {16}, year = {2021}, pages = {e0238667}, abstract = {

Aggressive behavior in school is an ongoing concern. The current focus is on specific manifestations such as bullying, but the behavior is broad and heterogenous. Children spend a substantial amount of time in school, but their behaviors in the school setting tend to be less well characterized than at home. Because aggression may index multiple behavioral problems, we used three validated instruments to assess means, correlations and gender differences of teacher-rated aggressive behavior with co-occurring externalizing/internalizing problems and social behavior in 39,936 schoolchildren aged 7-14 from 4 population-based cohorts from Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK. Correlations of aggressive behavior were high with all other externalizing problems (r: 0.47-0.80) and lower with internalizing problems (r: 0.02-0.39). A negative association was observed with prosocial behavior (r: -0.33 to -0.54). Mean levels of aggressive behavior differed significantly by gender. Despite the higher mean levels of aggressive behavior in boys, the correlations were notably similar for boys and girls (e.g., aggressive-hyperactivity correlations: 0.51-0.75 boys, 0.47-0.70 girls) and did not vary greatly with respect to age, instrument or cohort. Thus, teacher-rated aggressive behavior rarely occurs in isolation; boys and girls with problems of aggressive behavior likely require help with other behavioral and emotional problems. Important to note, higher aggressive behavior is not only associated with higher amounts of other externalizing and internalizing problems but also with lower levels of prosocial behavior.

}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0238667}, author = {Whipp, Alyce M and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Bolhuis, Koen and de Zeeuw, Eveline L and Korhonen, Tellervo and Mauri, Matteo and Pulkkinen, Lea and Rimfeld, Kaili and Rose, Richard J and van Beijsterveldt, Catharina Toos E M and Bartels, Meike and Plomin, Robert and Tiemeier, Henning and Kaprio, Jaakko and Boomsma, Dorret I} } @article {422, title = {Harmonizing behavioral outcomes across studies, raters, and countries: application to the genetic analysis of aggression in the ACTION Consortium}, journal = {Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry}, volume = {61}, year = {2020}, pages = {807{\textendash}817}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND: Aggression in children has genetic and environmental causes. Studies of aggression can pool existing datasets to include more complex models of social effects. Such analyses require large datasets with harmonized outcome measures. Here, we made use of a reference panel for phenotype data to harmonize multiple aggression measures in school-aged children to jointly analyze data from five large twin cohorts.

METHODS: Individual level aggression data on 86,559 children (42,468 twin pairs) were available in five European twin cohorts measured by different instruments. A phenotypic reference panel was collected which enabled a model-based phenotype harmonization approach. A bi-factor integration model in the integrative data analysis framework was developed to model aggression across studies while adjusting for rater, age, and sex. Finally, harmonized aggression scores were analyzed to estimate contributions of genes, environment, and social interaction to aggression. The large sample size allowed adequate power to test for sibling interaction effects, with unique dynamics permitted for opposite-sex twins.

RESULTS: The best-fitting model found a high level of overall heritability of aggression (\ 60\%). Different heritability rates of aggression across sex were marginally significant, with heritability estimates in boys of \ 64\% and \ 58\% in girls. Sibling interaction effects were only significant in the opposite-sex twin pairs: the interaction effect of males on their female co-twin differed from the effect of females on their male co-twin. An aggressive female had a positive effect on male co-twin aggression, whereas more aggression in males had a negative influence on a female co-twin.

CONCLUSIONS: Opposite-sex twins displayed unique social dynamics of aggressive behaviors in a joint analysis of a large, multinational dataset. The integrative data analysis framework, applied in combination with a reference panel, has the potential to elucidate broad, generalizable results in the investigation of common psychological traits in children.

}, keywords = {Aggression, developmental psychopathology, integrative data analysis, phenotype reference panel, twin modeling}, doi = {10.1111/jcpp.13188}, author = {Luningham, Justin M and Hendriks, Anne M and Krapohl, Eva and Fung Ip, Hill and van Beijsterveldt, Catharina E M and Lundstr{\"o}m, Sebastian and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Korhonen, Tellervo and Lichtenstein, Paul and Plomin, Robert and Pulkkinen, Lea and Rose, Richard J and Kaprio, Jaakko and Bartels, Meike and Boomsma, Dorret I and Lubke, Gitta H} } @article {274, title = {Aggressive behaviour in childhood and adolescence: the role of smoking during pregnancy, evidence from four twin cohorts in the EU-ACTION consortium}, journal = {Psychological Medicine}, year = {2018}, pages = {1{\textendash}9}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND:

Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) has been linked to offspring\&$\#$39;s externalizing problems. It has been argued that socio-demographic factors (e.g. maternal age and education), co-occurring environmental risk factors, or pleiotropic genetic effects may account for the association between MSDP and later outcomes. This study provides a comprehensive investigation of the association between MSDP and a single harmonized component of externalizing: aggressive behaviour, measured throughout childhood and adolescence.

METHODS:

Data came from four prospective twin cohorts - Twins Early Development Study, Netherlands Twin Register, Childhood and Adolescent Twin Study of Sweden, and FinnTwin12 study - who collaborate in the EU-ACTION consortium. Data from 30 708 unrelated individuals were analysed. Based on item level data, a harmonized measure of aggression was created at ages 9-10; 12; 14-15 and 16-18.

RESULTS:

MSDP predicted aggression in childhood and adolescence. A meta-analysis across the four samples found the independent effect of MSDP to be 0.4\% (r = 0.066), this remained consistent when analyses were performed separately by sex. All other perinatal factors combined explained 1.1\% of the variance in aggression across all ages and samples (r = 0.112). Paternal smoking and aggressive parenting strategies did not account for the MSDP-aggression association, consistent with the hypothesis of a small direct link between MSDP and aggression.

CONCLUSIONS:

Perinatal factors, including MSDP, account for a small portion of the variance in aggression in childhood and adolescence. Later experiences may play a greater role in shaping adolescents\&$\#$39; aggressive behaviour.

}, doi = {10.1017/S0033291718001344}, author = {Malanchini, Margherita and Emily Smith-Woolley and Ayorech, Ziada and Kaili Rimfeld and Eva Krapohl and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Korhonen, Tellervo and Meike Bartels and van Beijsterveldt, Toos C.E.M. and Richard J. Rose and et al.} } @article {230, title = {Childhood aggression and the co-occurrence of behavioural and emotional problems: results across ages 3{\textendash}16~years from multiple raters in six cohorts in the EU-ACTION project}, journal = {European Child {\&} Adolescent Psychiatry}, year = {2018}, month = {May}, abstract = {

Childhood aggression and its resulting consequences inflict a huge burden on affected children, their relatives, teachers, peers and society as a whole. Aggression during childhood rarely occurs in isolation and is correlated with other symptoms of childhood psychopathology. In this paper, we aim to describe and improve the understanding of the co-occurrence of aggression with other forms of childhood psychopathology. We focus on the co-occurrence of aggression and other childhood behavioural and emotional problems, including other externalising problems, attention problems and anxiety\–depression. The data were brought together within the EU-ACTION (Aggression in Children: unravelling gene-environment interplay to inform Treatment and InterventiON strategies) project. We analysed the co-occurrence of aggression and other childhood behavioural and emotional problems as a function of the child\&$\#$39;s age (ages 3 through 16\ years), gender, the person rating the behaviour (father, mother or self) and assessment instrument. The data came from six large population-based European cohort studies from the Netherlands (2x), the UK, Finland and Sweden (2x). Multiple assessment instruments, including the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Multidimensional Peer Nomination Inventory (MPNI), were used. There was a good representation of boys and girls in each age category, with data for 30,523 3- to 4-year-olds (49.5{\%} boys), 20,958 5- to 6-year-olds (49.6{\%} boys), 18,291 7- to 8-year-olds (49.0{\%} boys), 27,218 9- to 10-year-olds (49.4{\%} boys), 18,543 12- to 13-year-olds (48.9{\%} boys) and 10,088 15- to 16-year-olds (46.6{\%} boys). We replicated the well-established gender differences in average aggression scores at most ages for parental ratings. The gender differences decreased with age and were not present for self-reports. Aggression co-occurred with the majority of other behavioural and social problems, from both externalising and internalising domains. At each age, the co-occurrence was particularly prevalent for aggression and oppositional and ADHD-related problems, with correlations of around 0.5 in general. Aggression also showed substantial associations with anxiety\–depression and other internalizing symptoms (correlations around 0.4). Co-occurrence for self-reported problems was somewhat higher than for parental reports, but we found neither rater differences, nor differences across assessment instruments in co-occurrence patterns. There were large similarities in co-occurrence patterns across the different European countries. Finally, co-occurrence was generally stable across age and sex, and if any change was observed, it indicated stronger correlations when children grew older. We present an online tool to visualise these associations as a function of rater, gender, instrument and cohort. In addition, we present a description of the full EU-ACTION projects, its first results and the future perspectives.

Related interactive tool here.

}, issn = {1435-165X}, doi = {10.1007/s00787-018-1169-1}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1169-1}, author = {Meike Bartels and Anne Hendriks and Matteo Mauri and Eva Krapohl and Alyce Whipp and Koen Bolhuis and Conde, Lucia Colodro and Luningham, Justin and Fung Ip, Hill and Fiona Hagenbeek and Roetman, Peter and Gatej, Raluca and Lamers, Audri and Michel G. Nivard and Jenny van Dongen and Lu, Yi and Christel Middeldorp and van Beijsterveldt, Toos and Vermeiren, Robert and Thomas Hankemeier and Kluft, Cees and Medland, Sarah and Lundstr{\"o}m, Sebastian and Richard J. Rose and Pulkkinen, Lea and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Korhonen, Tellervo and Martin, Nicholas G. and Gitta Lubke and Catrin Finkenauer and Vassilios Fanos and Henning Tiemeier and Lichtenstein, Paul and Robert Plomin and Kaprio, Jaakko and Dorret I. Boomsma} } @article {254, title = {Early adolescent aggression predicts antisocial personality disorder in young adults: a population-based study}, journal = {European Child {\&} Adolescent Psychiatry}, year = {2018}, month = {Jul}, abstract = {

Modestly prevalent in the general population ({\textasciitilde}{\th}inspace}4{\%}), but highly prevalent in prison populations (\>{\th}inspace}40{\%}), the diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) involves aggression as one of several possible criteria. Using multiple informants, we aimed to determine if general aggression, as well as direct and indirect subtypes, assessed in early adolescence (ages 12, 14) predict young adulthood ASPD in a population-based sample. Using data from a Finnish population-based longitudinal twin cohort study with psychiatric interviews available at age 22 (N{\th}inspace}={\th}inspace}1347), we obtained DSM-IV-based ASPD diagnoses. Aggression measures from ages 12 (parental and teacher ratings) and 14 (teacher, self, and co-twin ratings) were used to calculate odds ratios (OR) of ASPD from logistic regression models and the area under the curve (AUC) from receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. Analyses were adjusted for sex, age, and family structure. All informants\&$\#$39; aggression ratings were significant (p{\th}inspace}\<{\th}inspace}0.05) predictors of ASPD (OR range 1.3\–1.8; AUC range 0.65\–0.72). Correlations between informants ranged from 0.13 to 0.33. Models including two or more aggression ratings, particularly age 14 teacher and self ratings, more accurately predicted ASPD (AUC: 0.80; 95{\%} confidence interval 0.73\–0.87). Direct aggression rated by all informants significantly predicted ASPD (OR range 1.4\–1.9), whereas only self-rated indirect aggression was significantly associated with ASPD (OR{\th}inspace}={\th}inspace}1.4). Across different informants, general and direct aggression at ages 12 and 14 predicted ASPD in a population-based sample. Psychiatric, social, and parenting interventions for ASPD prevention should focus on children and adolescents with high aggression levels, with an aim to gather information from multiple informants.

}, issn = {1435-165X}, doi = {10.1007/s00787-018-1198-9}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1198-9}, author = {Alyce Whipp and Korhonen, Tellervo and Raevuori, Anu and Heikkil{\"a}, Kauko and Pulkkinen, Lea and Richard J. Rose and Kaprio, Jaakko and Vuoksimaa, Eero} } @article {102, title = {Longitudinal heritability of childhood aggression.}, journal = {Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Jan 19}, abstract = {

The genetic and environmental contributions to the variation and longitudinal stability in childhood aggressive behavior were assessed in two large twin cohorts, the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), and the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS; United Kingdom). In NTR, maternal ratings on aggression from the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) were available for 10,765 twin pairs at age 7, for 8,557 twin pairs at age 9/10, and for 7,176 twin pairs at age 12. In TEDS, parental ratings of conduct disorder from the Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) were available for 6,897 twin pairs at age 7, for 3,028 twin pairs at age 9 and for 5,716 twin pairs at age 12. In both studies, stability and heritability of aggressive behavioral problems was high. Heritability was on average somewhat, but significantly, lower in TEDS (around 60\%) than in NTR (between 50\% and 80\%) and sex differences were slightly larger in the NTR sample. In both studies, the influence of shared environment was similar: in boys shared environment explained around 20\% of the variation in aggression across all ages while in girls its influence was absent around age 7 and only came into play at later ages. Longitudinal genetic correlations were the main reason for stability of aggressive behavior. Individual differences in CBCL-Aggressive Behavior and SDQ-Conduct disorder throughout childhood are driven by a comparable but significantly different genetic architecture. \© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

}, issn = {1552-485X}, doi = {10.1002/ajmg.b.32420}, author = {Porsch, Robert M and Christel Middeldorp and Cherny, Stacey S and Eva Krapohl and Catharina E. M. van Beijsterveldt and Loukola, Anu and Korhonen, Tellervo and Pulkkinen, Lea and Corley, Robin and Rhee, Soo and Kaprio, Jaakko and Rose, Richard R and Hewitt, John K and Sham, Pak and Robert Plomin and Dorret I. Boomsma and Meike Bartels} } @article {257, title = {Role of overlapping genetic and environmental factors in the relationship between early adolescent conduct problems and substance use in young adulthood}, journal = {Addiction (Abingdon, England)}, volume = {111}, year = {2016}, month = {2016/06/}, pages = {1036 - 1045}, abstract = {

AIMS: To determine (1) the prospective associations of conduct problems during early adolescence with tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use in young adulthood and (2) to what extent these associations are due to overlapping genetic versus environmental influences. DESIGN: A prospective twin study using biometric twin modelling. SETTING: Finland. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1847 Finnish twins (943 males and 904 females) were interviewed in early adolescence, 73\% of whom (n\ =\ 1353, 640 males and 713 females) were retained in young adulthood. MEASUREMENTS: Symptom counts of conduct disorder (CD) criteria were obtained from a semi-structured clinical interview in early adolescence [age 14-15 years, mean\ =\ 14.2, standard deviation (SD)\ =\ 0.15]. Frequency of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use was obtained from a semi-structured clinical interview in young adulthood (age 19.9-26.6 years, mean\ =\ 22.4, SD\ =\ 0.7). FINDINGS: We found modest to moderate phenotypical correlations (r\ =\ 0.16-0.35) between early adolescent CD symptoms and substance use in young adulthood. In males, the phenotypical correlations of CD symptoms with all three substance use variables are explained largely by overlapping genetic influences. In females, overlapping shared environmental influences predominantly explain the phenotypical correlation between CD symptoms and tobacco and cannabis use. CONCLUSIONS: Conduct disorder symptoms in early adolescence appear to moderately predict substance use in early adulthood. In males, genetic influences seem to be most important in explaining the relationship between conduct disorder symptoms and substance use whereas in females, shared environmental influences seem to be most important.

}, isbn = {1360-04430965-2140}, url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26748618}, author = {Verweij, Karin J H and Creemers, Hanneke E and Korhonen, Tellervo and Latvala, Antti and Dick, Danielle M and Richard J. Rose and Huizink, Anja C and Kaprio, Jaakko} }