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. 2009 Feb;34(2):273–280. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.09.006

Table 3.

Cortisol heritability analyses using Mx (ACE models)

Model fitting results (parameter estimates and confidence intervals)
Additive genetic effect (a2) Shared environment effect (c2) Non-shared environment effect (e2)
Pretask baseline 0.58 (0.13; 0.70) 0.00 (0.00; 0.37) 0.42 (0.30; 0.58)
Post-task 1 0.60 (0.43; 0.72) 0.00 (0.00; 0.24) 0.40 (0.28; 0.59)
Post-task 2 0.56 (0.38; 0.69) 0.00 (0.00; 0.33) 0.44 (0.31; 0.64)
Reactivity 0.44 (0.12; 0.62) 0.00 (0.00; 0.20) 0.56 (0.38; 0.79)

Variance with 95% confidence intervals.