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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2009 Mar 13;39(3):265–276. doi: 10.1007/s10519-009-9261-4

Table 2.

Cross-Sibling Within-Trait Polychoric Correlations by Sibling Type and Gender

MT PMT Neglect SMT
All MZ .34 (.21–.46) .46 (.27–.61) .36 (.21–.50) .13 (−.38–.58)
DZ .31 (.20–.42) .32 (.15–.48) .25 (.25–.10) .34 (−.03–.64)
FS .19 (.12–.27) .30 (.21–.40) .18 (.09–.27) .24 (−.05–.50)
Male MZ .22 (−.01–.42) .33 (−.01–.59) .31 (.08–.52)
DZ .27 (.06–.46) .03 (−.28–.35) .28 (.02–.50)
FS .17 (.03–.32) .33 (.14–.50) .18 (.00–.36)
Female MZ .41 (.25–.55) .55 (.32–.72) .41 (.19–.58)
DZ .36 (.11–.55) .56 (.27–.75) .20 (−.10–.46)
FS .21 (.07–.34) .30 (.12–.46) .24 (.07–.40)
Opposite Sex DZ .32 (.14–.47) .35 (.08–.57) .25 (.01–.46)
FS .20 (.09–.30) .29 (.14–.43) .14 (.00–.27)

Note. SMT correlations were not computed by gender due to small cell sizes. MT = composite maltreatment; PMT = physical maltreatment; SMT = sexual maltreatment. MZ = monozygotic; DZ = dizygotic; FS = nontwin full sibling.