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. 2009 Feb 18;89(4):1011–1018. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.27170

TABLE 2.

Additive genetic, shared environmental, and nonshared environmental effects for vigorous exercise (VE) and BMI and their correlation1

a2 c2 e2 ra rc re
VE 0.10 0.18 0.72
(0.00, 0.31) (0.01, 0.30) (0.63, 0.80)
BMI 0.67 0.04 0.29
(0.56, 0.072) (0.00, 0.14) (0.27, 0.32)
VE-BMI −0.03 −0.05 −0.09
(−0.54, 0.36) (−0.99, 0.99) (−0.16, −0.02)
1

n = 8627 study participants drawn from 2710 monozygotic and 2327 dizygotic twin pairs (results of gene × environment interaction twin structural equation modeling). 95% CIs are in parentheses. a2, additive genetic variance; c2, shared environmental variance; e2, nonshared environmental variance; ra, additive genetic correlation; rc, shared environmental correlation; re, nonshared environmental correlation.