Table 4.
Physical health conditions | Affected probands who also have physical health conditions | Proportion of co-twins with physical health conditions | ||||||||||
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Clinical diagnosis | Subclinical phenotype | Clinical diagnosis | Subclinical phenotype | |||||||||
MZ | DZ | MZ | DZ | |||||||||
% | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | |
Autism | ||||||||||||
Neurological disorders | ||||||||||||
Epilepsy | 8.5 | 5.5, 11.5 | 4.8 | 3.1, 7.3 | 4.2 | 0.6, 7.9 | 4.3 | 1.5, 7.0 | 1.6 | 0.2, 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.0, 3.6 |
Immunological disorders | ||||||||||||
Asthma | 20.4 | 15.6, 25.1 | 21.6 | 17.8, 25.6 | 19.5 | 11.1, 27.8 | 22.3 | 16.4, 28.1 | 16.6 | 11.7, 21.5 | 16.5 | 13.0, 20.0 |
Coeliac disease | 2.4 | 0.6, 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.7, 3.2 | 0.8 | 0, 2.5 | 2.4 | 0, 4.8 | 0.7 | 0, 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.1, 2.4 |
Gastrointestinal disorders | ||||||||||||
Constipation | 11.6 | 8.0, 15.1 | 13.8 | 10.8, 17.5 | 11.0 | 4.8, 17.2 | 8.1 | 4.4, 11.7 | 10.1 | 6.5, 13.7 | 10.9 | 8.2, 13.7 |
Functional diarrhea | 3.0 | 1.2, 4.9 | 1.3 | 0.5, 2.9 | 2.5 | 0, 5.4 | 1.9 | 0.1, 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.4, 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.1, 1.9 |
Mixed FGIDs | 14.3 | 10.4, 18.2 | 14.3 | 11.2, 18.1 | 13.6 | 7.0, 21.2 | 9.5 | 5.4, 13.5 | 11.1 | 7.3, 14.8 | 11.5 | 8.7, 14.3 |
ADHD | ||||||||||||
Neurological disorders | ||||||||||||
Epilepsy | 3.9 | 2.6, 5.2 | 3.1 | 2.3, 4.3 | 3.1 | 1.3, 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.4, 4.2 | 2.2 | 1.2, 3.2 | 1.9 | 1.1, 2.6 |
Migraine | 3.4 | 2.2, 4.5 | 1.9 | 1.3, 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.5, 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.1, 5.3 | 1.6 | 0.7, 2.4 | 2.0 | 1.2, 2.7 |
Mixed headache | 4.2 | 2.9, 5.6 | 2.5 | 1.8, 3.6 | 3.4 | 1.2, 5.5 | 4.1 | 2.4, 5.7 | 2.1 | 1.1, 3.1 | 2.7 | 1.8, 3.5 |
Immunological disorders | ||||||||||||
Asthma | 20.7 | 17.8, 23.6 | 19.1 | 17.0, 21.5 | 20.7 | 15.9, 25.6 | 20.6 | 17.4, 24.2 | 16.7 | 13.8, 19.5 | 16.9 | 14.9, 19.0 |
Gastrointestinal disorders | ||||||||||||
Constipation | 10.7 | 8.7, 12.8 | 10.2 | 8.6, 12.1 | 8.7 | 5.5, 11.9 | 10.2 | 7.7, 12.7 | 7.1 | 5.3, 8.9 | 8.7 | 7.3, 10.2 |
Mixed FGIDs | 11.8 | 9.7, 14.0 | 10.9 | 9.2, 12.8 | 10.6 | 7.2, 14.1 | 11.2 | 8.5, 13.8 | 8.3 | 6.4, 10.2 | 9.5 | 8.0, 11.0 |
The physical health conditions in this study did not include the data from primary care health services
ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; DZ, dizygotic twins; FGIDs, functional gastrointestinal disorders; MZ, monozygotic twins
Bold values: Higher MZ than DZ estimates