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Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2012 Jan 9;55(3):739–753. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0014)

Table 4.

Univariate MZ and DZ twin correlations and estimates of a2, c2, and e2 for HV2, with nested AE model comparison.

Variable/statistic TCICU MLU NDW NTW TNC
MZ
r .74 .55 .52 .50 .50
 95% CI [.65, .82] [.40, .68] [.34, .67] [.30, .65] [.31, .38]
n pairs 107 102 75 75 75
DZ
r .42 .37 .27 .32 .20
 95% CI [.28, .54] [.22, .50] [.09, .49] [.13, .48] [.00, .38]
n pairs 143 141 95 95 95
ACE model parameter estimates
a2 .35 .50 .55 .59 .53
  95% CI [.07, .66] [.14, .71] [.09, .67] [.14, .71] [.22, .66]
c2 .33 .11 .00 .00 .00
  95% CI [.03, .56] [.00, .39] [.00, .35] [.00, .34] [.00, .20]
e2 .32 .39 .45 .40 .47
  95% CI [.25, .42] [.28, .53] [.33, .63] [.29, .59] [.34, .66]
AE model vs. ACE model
 Fit statistics
  AIC (ACE) 328.582 368.39 319.38 268.87 326.51
  BIC (ACE) −784.54 −697.08 −542.60 −385.97 −539.03
  AIC (AE) 331.21 366.95 317.38 267.66 324.51
  BIC (AE) −785.02 −699.58 −545.32 −388.21 −541.76
 AE model parameter estimates
  a2 .69 .63 .55 .56 .53
   95% CI [.60, .75] [.50, .72] [.39, .67] [.44, .71] [.34, .66]
  a2 .31 .37 .45 .40 .47
   95% CI [.25, .40] [.28, .50] [.33, .61] [.29, .56] [.34, .66]

Note. Boldface type indicates lower Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian information criterion (BIC) values (indicating a better fitting model) for each model-fitting comparison. AIC (ACE/AE): AIC for the ACE/AE model. BIC (ACE/AE): BIC for the ACE/AE model.