Cited by 29Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Susceptibility effects of GABA receptor subunit alpha-2 (GABRA2) variants and parental monitoring on externalizing behavior trajectories: Risk and protection conveyed by the minor allele

Open access
Trucco, Elisa M., Villafuerte, Sandra, Heitzeg, Mary M., Burmeister, Margit, Zucker, Robert A.·2016·Development and Psychopathology

Abstract

Understanding factors increasing susceptibility to social contexts and predicting psychopathology can help identify targets for prevention. Persistently high externalizing behavior in adolescence is predictive of psychopathology in adulthood. Parental monitoring predicts low externalizing behavior, yet youth likely vary in the degree to which they are affected by parents. Genetic variants of GABA receptor subunit alpha-2 (GABRA2) may increase susceptibility to parental monitoring, thus impacting externalizing trajectories. We had several objectives: (a) to determine whether GABRA2 (rs279827, rs279826, rs279858) moderates the relationship between a component of parental monitoring, parental knowledge, and externalizing trajectories; (b) to test the form of this interaction to assess whether GABRA2 variants reflect risk (diathesis-stress) or susceptibility (differential susceptibility) factors; and (c) to clarify GABRA2 associations on the development of problem behavior. This prospective study (N = 504) identified three externalizing trajectory classes (i.e., low, decreasing, and high) across adolescence. A GABRA2 × Parental Monitoring effect on class membership was observed, such that A-carriers were largely unaffected by parental monitoring, whereas class membership for those with the GG genotype was affected by parental monitoring. Findings support differential susceptibility in GABRA2.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1017/s0954579415000255

Cites

61 of 61 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • There was a significant simple slope of parental monitoring for GG genotype (2.12, p < 0.05), NS for A-carriers (0.37, p = 0.22).

    “Significant simple slope of parental monitoring for GG genotype (2.12, p < 0.05), NS for A-carriers (0.37, p = 0.22)”

    From Genetics of child aggression, a systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Trucco [163]

    The Results section (‘Parental monitoring and GABRA2’) reports the GG simple slope as 2.12 (p < .05) and the A-carrier slope as nonsignificant (p = .22). It gives the A-carrier slope as −0.37, however, not the positive 0.37 stated in the claim. (LLM, conf=0.94)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
  • Genetic effects contribute to relative sensitivity of response to specific environments and shape the propensity to seek out certain environments over others.

    “Genetic effects also play a role in determining the potency of these relationships; they contribute both to relative sensitivity of response to specific environments (Trucco et al., 2016) as well as by shaping the propensity to seek out certain environments over others (cf. Hur and Bouchard, 1995; Reiss et al., 2000).”
  • There was a gene-environment interaction: GABRA2 x Parental Monitoring: GG genotype demonstrated heightened susceptibility to parental monitoring; A carriers unaffected.

    “GxE: GABRA2 x Parental Monitoring: GG genotype demonstrate hightened susceptibility to parental monitoring; A carriers unaffected”

    From Genetics of child aggression, a systematic review (2024) · cites this paper as Trucco [163]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. Bronfenbrenner U Morris P 1998 The ecology of developmental processes Lerner RM Handbook of child psychology: Theoretical models of human development 1 5th 993 1028 New York Wiley
  2. Kendler KS 2011 A conceptual overview of gene–environment interaction and correlation in a developmental context Kendler KS Jaffee S Romer D The Dynamic Genome and Mental Health New York Oxford University Press

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Trucco, E. M., Villafuerte, S., Heitzeg, M. M., Burmeister, M., & Zucker, R. A.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Trucco, Elisa M.
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Published
2015-03-23
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
15-26
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
OpenAlex
W1972498990
Cited by
29
References
60
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 7
FWCI
7.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000433)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA012217, K08AA023290, R01AA007065, T32AA007477)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA027261)
  • National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR024986)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Keywords
GABRA2, parental supervision, externalizing problems, differential susceptibility, diathesis-stress model, gene-environment interaction, adolescent behavior problems, genetic risk, psychopathology risk
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Aggression, Alleles, Female, Genotype, Heterozygote, Humans, Juvenile Delinquency, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Prospective Studies, Receptors, GABA-A, Risk, Risk Factors, Parenting, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gene-Environment Interaction, Protective Factors

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review