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. 2012 Jul 24;7(7):e41783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041783

Table 1. Proportion of men born in Sweden 1961–1975 who were convicted of one or more violent offences 1973–2009 and mean general cognitive ability, divided by sibling type.

Cognitive ability, mean (SD)
Number of pairs Violent crime (%) No violent conviction Violent conviction Cognitive ability,sibling correlation
Full brothers 119,195 6.6% 5.2 (1.9) 3.9 (1.7) 0.49
Half-brothers, reared together 8977 13.8% 4.6 (1.8) 3.6 (1.6) 0.33
Half-brothers, reared apart 12,574 14.3% 4.7 (1.8) 3.7 (1.6) 0.24