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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2012 May 28;4(1):23–32. doi: 10.1037/a0027178

Table 3. Variance Component Estimates for BPD and Substance Use at Age 14 and 18.

Age 14 Age 18
Phenotype A C E A C E
BPD traits .25
(.001,.51)
.23
(.01,.44)
.52
(.44,.60)
.48
(.19, .57)
.01
(.00,.26)
.51
(.43,.60)
Substance Use .44
(.28,.61)
.33
(.16,.48)
.23
(.19,.28)
.49
(.26,.76)
.25
(.00,.47)
.26
(.21,.32)

Note: BPD = Borderline Personality; A = additive genetic effects with 95% confidence intervals [CIs]; C = shared environmental effects; E = nonshared environmental effects.