There was no evidence of a gender difference in alcohol initiation, either by itself or after adjusting for other predictors/covariates. Interview age significantly contributed only in the single-predictor model and not in multiple-predictor models. Ancestry was significant in both the single- and multiple-predictor models. Our findings that EA subjects are at higher risk for initiating drinking than AA is consistent with previous studies of age of actual drinking initiation (Alvanzo et al., 2011; Jackson, 2010; Zapolski, Pedersen, McCarthy, & Smith, 2014).
