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. 2008 Jun;7(4):455–462. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2007.00370.x

Table 2.

Twin similarity coefficients (intraclass correlations) for mathematics, reading and g

Measure MZ DZS DZO DZall MZM MZF DZM DZF
Mathematics 0.71 (0.68–0.75), (n = 863) 0.51 (0.45–0.56), (n = 762) 0.43 (0.37–0.49), (n = 751) 0.47 (0.43–0.51), (n = 1513) 0.69 (0.63–0.74), (n = 356) 0.73 (0.68–0.77), (n = 507) 0.47 (0.38–0.55), (n = 343) 0.54 (0.47–0.60), (n = 419)
Reading 0.64 (0.60–0.67), (n = 919) 0.44 (0.39–0.50), (n = 817) 0.42 (0.36–0.47), (n = 805) 0.43 (0.39–0.47), (n = 1622) 0.64 (0.58–0.70), (n = 383) 0.63 (0.58–0.68), (n = 536) 0.43 (0.34–0.51), (n = 373) 0.46 (0.38–0.53), (n = 444)
g 0.71 (0.67–0.74), (n = 833) 0.53 (0.47–0.58), (n = 728) 0.44 (0.38–0.50), (n = 709) 0.48 (0.44–0.52), (n = 1437) 0.71 (0.65–0.76), (n = 342) 0.71 (0.66–0.75), (n = 491) 0.50 (0.42–0.58), (n = 328) 0.54 (0.47–0.61), (n = 400)

All similarity coefficients are based on age-, sex- and download-time-corrected scores.

95% confidence intervals in parentheses.

Dzall, all DZ pairs; DZO, opposite-sex DZ pairs; DZS, same-sex DZ pairs; MZ, MZ pairs; MZF, MZ female pairs; MZM, MZ male pairs; n, number of twin pairs.