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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2012 Jan 27;74(2):146–152. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318240a7d8

Table 4.

Unadjusted relationship between the continuous ETI scores and inflammatory biomarkers, CRP and IL-6, within twin pairs.

Overall Sample (241 Twin Pairs) Monozygotic (146 Twin Pairs) Dizygotic (95 Twin Pairs)
CRP
IL-6
CRP
IL-6
CRP
IL-6
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
β p-
value
Within Twin Effects
 Total Trauma 0.004 0.83 −0.01 0.68 −0.04 0.81 −0.14 0.22 −0.04 0.88 0.25 0.18
  General Trauma 0.02 0.67 −0.02 0.46 −0.03 0.85 −0.14 0.23 0.14 0.62 0.15 0.46
  Physical Abuse −0.01 0.84 0.04 0.41 −0.18 0.29 −0.02 0.84 −0.05 0.85 0.45 0.02
  Emotional Abuse 0.02 0.73 −0.01 0.69 −0.17 0.37 −0.10 0.44 0.32 0.26 0.29 0.17
  Sexual Abuse −0.06 0.58 −0.03 0.68 0.10 0.63 0.01 0.97 −0.24 0.58 0.13 0.68

CRP: C-reactive protein; IL-6: interleukin-6

Regression coefficient (β) and p values were derived from mixed models for continuous variables that included a random intercept for pair. Effects are expressed as individual twin variation in ETI score points from their twin pair average, which corresponds to the absolute difference between the two brothers.