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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2010 Dec;43(8):679–688. doi: 10.1002/eat.20772

Table 1. Sample Sizes by Twin Registry and Age Group (Total N = 2,618 twins from 1,100 complete and 209 incomplete pairs).

MSUTR MTFS ATR Total

Age Group Total MZ DZ Total MZ DZ Total MZ DZ Total MZ DZ
10-12 yrs 172 84 88 0 0 0 0 0 0 172 84 88
13-15 yrs 146 78 68 532 342 190 0 0 0 678 420 258
16-19 yrs 152 94 58 24 26 22 0 0 0 200 120 80
20-25 yrs 164 92 72 516 346 170 0 0 0 680 438 242
26-30 yrs 16 8 8 0 0 0 334 206 128 350 214 136
31-41 yrs 0 0 0 0 0 0 538 348 190 538 348 190

Total 650 356 294 1,072 714 382 872 554 318 2,618 1,624 994

Note. MSUTR = Michigan State University Twin Registry; MTFS = Minnesota Twin Family Study; ATR = Australian Twin Registry; MZ = monozygotic; DZ = dizygotic. Values are the number of twins per age category and twin registry.