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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Affect Disord. 2012 Aug 16;142(1-3):90–97. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.03.048

Table 2.

Sources of genetic and environmental variance for each phenotype.

Shared Liability Model
Genetic Influences MD INIT FTND

Total genetic variance* 0.28 0.70 0.60
% from A1 100 4.8 22.1
% from A2 n/a 95.2 5.3
% from A3 n/a n/a 72.6
Environmental Influences

Total environmental variance 0.72 0.30 0.40
% from E1 100 n/a n/a
% from E2 n/a 100 3.6
% from E3 n/a n/a 96.4

Causal Model
Genetic Influences MD INIT FTND

Total genetic variance 0.27 0.69 0.61
% from A1 90.1 n/a n/a
% from A2 1.5 100 15.5
% from A3 8.4 n/a 84.5
Environmental Influences

Total environmental variance 0.73 0.31 0.39
% from E1 97.6 n/a n/a
% from E2 <1 100 10.5
% from E3 2.2 n/a 89.5
*

Note that, because twin modeling was conducted using ordinalized variables, the total phenotypic variance for each trait is constrained to 1; thus, these values are actually proportions of variance rather than true variance. However, totals might not sum to 1 due to rounding.