Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 321-332 , April 2010

Effects of Child Maltreatment and Inherited Liability on Antisocial Development: An Official Records Study

  • Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Ned Presnall, M.S.W.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Brett Drake, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Louis Fox, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Laura Bierut, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Wendy Reich, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Phyllis Kane, M.S.W.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • Richard D. Todd, Ph.D., M.D.

      Affiliations

    • George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
    • ,
  • John N. Constantino, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Washington University School of Medicine
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. Constantino, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8134, Saint Louis, MO 63110

,Accepted 7 December 2009.

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 Dr. Johnson-Reid and Dr. Constantino contributed equally to this work.

 This article is discussed in an editorial by Dr. Joan Kaufman on page 300.

 This article can be used to obtain continuing medical education (CME) category 1 credit at jaacap.org.

 This work was supported in part by The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA). Principal Investigators are B. Porjesz, vs. Hesselbrock, H. Edenberg, L. Bierut. The study includes nine different centers: University of Connecticut (V. Hesselbrock); Indiana University (H.J. Edenberg, J. Nurnberger Jr., T. Foroud); University of Iowa (S. Kuperman, J. Kramer); SUNY Downstate (B. Porjesz); Washington University in St. Louis (L. Bierut, A. Goate, J. Rice, K. Bucholz); University of California at San Diego (M. Schuckit); Rutgers University (J. Tischfield); Southwest Foundation (L. Almasy), and Virginia Commonwealth University (D. Dick). A. Parsian and M. Reilly are the NIAAA Staff Collaborators and Robert Taylor serves as a consultant. This national collaborative study is supported by National Institutes of Health Grant U10AA008401 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

 We continue to be inspired by our memories of Henri Begleiter and Theodore Reich, founding PI and Co-PI of COGA, and also owe a debt of gratitude to other past organizers of COGA, including Ting-Kai Li, P. Michael Conneally, Raymond Crowe, and Wendy Reich, for their critical contributions.

 Disclosure: Drs. Jonson-Reid, Drake, Fox, Beirut, Reich, Todd, and Constantino, and Mr. Presnall and Mrs. Kane report no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(10)00073-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2009.11.015

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 4 , Pages 321-332 , April 2010

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