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. 2008 Jan 29;18(8):1737–1747. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm211

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the sample

MZ twins DZ twins Sibs of twins Singletons Total sample
N (% of total) 214 (35.7) 94 (15.7) 64 (10.7) 228 (38.0) 600
Age
    Mean (SD): 11.03 (3.16) 11.20 (3.80) 11.62 (3.53) 10.92 (3.48) 11.08 (3.43)
    Range: 5.37–18.72 5.55–19.34 4.99–19.11 5.16–18.88 4.99–19.34
Sex (% of subsample)
    Male 117 (55) 53 (56) 31 (48) 132 (58) 332 (55)
    Female 97 (45) 41 (44) 33 (52) 96 (42) 268 (45)
Race (% of subsample)
    Caucasian 202 (94) 92 (98) 63 (98) 172 (75) 529 (88)
    African-American 6 (3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 36 (16) 42 (7)
    Asian-American 2 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 8 (4) 10 (2)
    Hispanic 4 (2) 2 (2) 1 (2) 11 (5) 18 (3)
    Unspecified 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (<1) 1 (<1)
Handedness (% of subsample)
    Right 189 (88) 78 (83) 56 (88) 199 (87) 513 (86)
    Mixed 19 (9) 11 (12) 7 (11) 21 (9) 36 (6)
    Left 18 (8) 9 (10) 10 (16) 32 (14) 37 (6)
    Undetermined 6 (3) 2 (2) 4 (6) 2 (<1) 14 (2)
SES
    Mean (SD) 43.49 (18.40) 42.92 (13.87) 40.11 (16.89) 40.70 (20.57) 41.99 (18.49)
    Range 20–89 20–70 20–77 20–95 20–95