Alexis E Duncan

Summary

Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Relationship between body mass index, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse in a young adult female twin sample
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:458-66. 2009
  2. ncbi Lifetime psychiatric comorbidity of alcohol dependence and bulimia nervosa in women
    Alexis E Duncan
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 84:122-32. 2006
  3. ncbi Exposure to paternal alcoholism does not predict development of alcohol-use disorders in offspring: evidence from an offspring-of-twins study
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Avenue, Suite 1000, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol 67:649-56. 2006
  4. ncbi Clustering of eating disorder symptoms in a general population female twin sample: a latent class analysis
    Alexis E Duncan
    Department of Psychiatry and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Psychol Med 37:1097-107. 2007
  5. ncbi The association between cannabis abuse and dependence and childhood physical and sexual abuse: evidence from an offspring of twins design
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Addiction 103:990-7. 2008
  6. ncbi Differences in time to onset of smoking and nicotine dependence by race/ethnicity in a Midwestern sample of adolescents and young adults from a high risk family study
    Alexis E Duncan
    The Brown School, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 125:140-5. 2012
  7. ncbi A latent class analysis of DSM-IV and Fagerström (FTND) criteria for nicotine dependence
    Arpana Agrawal
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 13:972-81. 2011
  8. ncbi Associations of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, and drug use/dependence with educational attainment: evidence from cotwin-control analyses
    Julia D Grant
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center at Washington University, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:1412-20. 2012
  9. ncbi Measured environmental contributions to cannabis abuse/dependence in an offspring of twins design
    Jeffrey F Scherrer
    St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service 151 JC, 915 North Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO 63106, USA
    Addict Behav 33:1255-66. 2008
  10. ncbi Psychiatric and familial predictors of transition times between smoking stages: results from an offspring-of-twins study
    Carolyn E Sartor
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Addict Behav 33:235-51. 2008

Detail Information

Publications21

  1. ncbi Relationship between body mass index, alcohol use, and alcohol misuse in a young adult female twin sample
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:458-66. 2009
    ..The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between body mass index (BMI) and alcohol use and misuse in young adulthood in a sample of black and white female twins...
  2. ncbi Lifetime psychiatric comorbidity of alcohol dependence and bulimia nervosa in women
    Alexis E Duncan
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 84:122-32. 2006
    ..These results suggest that BN+AD+ women exhibit more severe psychopathology than either BN+AD- or BN-AD+ women and may represent a distinct subgroup within bulimia nervosa or alcohol dependence...
  3. ncbi Exposure to paternal alcoholism does not predict development of alcohol-use disorders in offspring: evidence from an offspring-of-twins study
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4560 Clayton Avenue, Suite 1000, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol 67:649-56. 2006
    ..Cox proportional hazards models were fit to predict time to first symptom of abuse/dependence in offspring...
  4. ncbi Clustering of eating disorder symptoms in a general population female twin sample: a latent class analysis
    Alexis E Duncan
    Department of Psychiatry and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Psychol Med 37:1097-107. 2007
    ..The objective of the current study was to examine the clustering of ED symptoms in a general population sample using latent class analysis (LCA)...
  5. ncbi The association between cannabis abuse and dependence and childhood physical and sexual abuse: evidence from an offspring of twins design
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Addiction 103:990-7. 2008
    ....
  6. ncbi Differences in time to onset of smoking and nicotine dependence by race/ethnicity in a Midwestern sample of adolescents and young adults from a high risk family study
    Alexis E Duncan
    The Brown School, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 125:140-5. 2012
    ....
  7. ncbi A latent class analysis of DSM-IV and Fagerström (FTND) criteria for nicotine dependence
    Arpana Agrawal
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 13:972-81. 2011
    ....
  8. ncbi Associations of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, and drug use/dependence with educational attainment: evidence from cotwin-control analyses
    Julia D Grant
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center at Washington University, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
    Alcohol Clin Exp Res 36:1412-20. 2012
    ..We tested whether alcohol, nicotine, and illicit drug use and dependence were associated with lifetime educational attainment after controlling for familial background characteristics...
  9. ncbi Measured environmental contributions to cannabis abuse/dependence in an offspring of twins design
    Jeffrey F Scherrer
    St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service 151 JC, 915 North Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO 63106, USA
    Addict Behav 33:1255-66. 2008
    ..08). Perceived sibling, friend and school peer substance use are strongly associated with CAD in young adults even after accounting for latent familial risk and for multiple measured intra-family and extra-family environmental influences...
  10. ncbi Psychiatric and familial predictors of transition times between smoking stages: results from an offspring-of-twins study
    Carolyn E Sartor
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Addict Behav 33:235-51. 2008
    ..Findings characterize a rarely examined aspect of the course of ND development and highlight critical distinctions in risk profiles across stages of tobacco involvement...
  11. ncbi Risk for initiation of substance use as a function of age of onset of cigarette, alcohol and cannabis use: findings in a Midwestern female twin cohort
    Arpana Agrawal
    Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Prev Med 43:125-8. 2006
    ..We investigated whether use and early-onset use of cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis contributed an increase in risk for initiation of subsequent psychoactive substances in women (N = 3729, mean age = 21.7)...
  12. ncbi Genetic and environmental contributions to BMI in adolescent and young adult women
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
    Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1040-3. 2009
    ..Additional research is needed to better characterize the environmental and genetic factors related to BMI in persons of different races to aid understanding of the complex determinants of body weight in individuals...
  13. ncbi Posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence in young women
    Carolyn E Sartor
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 71:810-8. 2010
    ....
  14. ncbi Smoking outcome expectancies in young adult female smokers: individual differences and associations with nicotine dependence in a genetically informative sample
    Sean D Kristjansson
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 116:37-44. 2011
    ....
  15. ncbi The effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring outcomes
    Arpana Agrawal
    Washington University School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Prev Med 50:13-8. 2010
    ....
  16. ncbi Body mass index and regular smoking in young adult women
    Alexis E Duncan
    Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, United States
    Addict Behav 35:983-8. 2010
    ..57, 95% CI: 1.05-2.35 and OR=1.73, 95% CI: 1.35-2.20, respectively). These results suggest that experiencing CSA alters the association between BMI and regular smoking in women who have experimented with cigarettes...
  17. ncbi Deconstructing the architecture of alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms in a community sample of late adolescent and emerging adult women: an item response approach
    Alexis E Duncan
    George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
    Drug Alcohol Depend 116:222-7. 2011
    ..Individual components of compound criteria may differ in measurement properties; therefore pooling information from such divergent items will reduce information about the AUD construct...
  18. ncbi Investigating the association between childhood sexual abuse and alcohol use disorders in women: does it matter how we ask about sexual abuse?
    Carolyn E Sartor
    Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 73:740-8. 2012
    ....
  19. ncbi Disentangling the complex association between childhood sexual abuse and alcohol-related problems: a review of methodological issues and approaches
    Carolyn E Sartor
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8134, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
    J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:718-27. 2008
    ..Additional directions for research, including the incorporation of measured genes and the use of longitudinal designs, are proposed to further efforts to model the pathways from CSA to alcohol-related problems...
  20. ncbi Are there subgroups of bulimia nervosa based on comorbid psychiatric disorders?
    Alexis E Duncan
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
    Int J Eat Disord 37:19-25. 2005
    ..The current study sought to determine whether there are subtypes of bulimia nervosa (BN) differentiated by comorbid psychiatric disorders...
  21. ncbi Subjective effects to cannabis are associated with use, abuse and dependence after adjusting for genetic and environmental influences
    Jeffrey F Scherrer
    Research Service, St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service 151 JC, 915 North Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO, United States
    Drug Alcohol Depend 105:76-82. 2009
    ..This study extends existing research by inclusion of adolescents and young adults in an offspring of twins design which makes it possible to take into account genetic and environmental risks for substance use disorder...