Consistent with Hypothesis 1 and with a prior short-term follow-up (Schuckit and Smith, 2004), the SRE5 and SRET values were fairly stable over 15 years, with both scores decreasing slightly with increasing age, perhaps reflecting the subjects’ more recent alcohol experiences and their need for fewer drinks for effects as they grew older (Kalant, 1998). Thus, while the SRE may be sensitive to additional life experiences, those effects may be relatively small, and are of similar magnitude for SRE5 and SRET. The latter finding might reflect the incorporation of SRE5 scores into SRET. Thus, the core of the relationship of SRE-based LR results to drinking parameters remained intact over the years.
