Genetic influences on alcohol use disorder (AUD) have been estimated to account for 40–60% of the variance in risk (Heath et al. 1997; Prescott & Kendler, 1999; Prescott et al. 1999; Knopik et al. 2004), but genetic influences on remission from AUD have been virtually ignored. Although family history of alcohol dependence has been included as a covariate predicting remission in population-based (Dawson, 1996; Dawson et al. 2005, 2007) and clinical samples (Bottlender & Soyka, 2005), family history of remission, as distinct from family history of AUD, has not been examined.
