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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2009 Feb;12(1):26–34. doi: 10.1375/twin.12.1.26

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Discrepancies in estimates of variance components compared to those of the cascade model (top graph) by type of relative included in the design and source of variance.

[ht: height, bmi: body mass index, sm: smoking status, ca: church attendance, pa: political affiliation; relative types and their combinations: T: twins, S: sibings, W: spouses, C: children, P: parents sources of variance: I: genetic variance due to assortment, A: additive genetic variance, D: dominance, E: unique environmental variance, S: sibing environmental variance, T: twin environmental variance, F: cultural transmission]