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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2013 Jan 31;43(2):97–107. doi: 10.1007/s10519-013-9584-z

Table 1.

Means and Variances of Five Substance Use Phenotypes.

Means Variances
Sample Sex N Age NIC CON DEP DRG BD NIC CON DEP DRUG BD
M (SD)
Twin Families
   Parents Male 1396 43.87 (5.65) .53 .80 .86 .41 .63 1.16 .42 1.64 1.36 1.10
Female 1587 41.67 (5.15) .18 .09 −.06 −.01 −.33 1.11 .35 .63 .83 .55
   MZ Twins Male 873 17.80 (0.61) −.21 −.23 −.25 −.17 .24 .70 1.38 .63 .90 1.17
Female 990 17.88 (0.77) −.44 −.64 −.51 −.39 −.44 .53 1.0 .25 .47 .66
   DZ Twins Male 457 17.75 (0.49) −.22 −.35 −.26 −.18 .25 .70 1.45 .61 .92 1.21
Female 557 18.03 (0.81) −.32 −.49 −.40 −.28 −.26 .65 1.05 .46 .65 .82
Adoptive Families
   Parents Male 384 48.43 (4.46) .22 .49 .44 .45 .22 1.13 .49 1.21 1.35 .73
Females 485 46.53 (4.11) −.18 −.11 −.21 .04 −.50 .91 .32 .47 .78 .28
   Bio Sibs Male 168 18.16 (1.01) −.26 −.14 −.09 .15 .35 .65 1.52 .78 1.37 1.31
Female 194 18.33 (1.14) −.46 −.49 −.37 −.15 −.27 .46 1.05 .41 .72 .76
   Adopted Sibs Male 50 18.54 (0.87) .09 .13 .05 .45 .68 .79 1.33 .98 1.47 1.20
Female 47 18.37 (1.05) −.24 −.25 −.29 .04 −.02 .51 .80 .61 .73 .59

Each variable in the full sample was scaled to have mean zero and variance one. NIC = Nicotine Use/Dependence; CON = Alcohol Consumption; DEP= Alcohol Dependence; DRG = Drug Dependence; BD = Behavioral Disinhibition; BD = Behavioral Disinhibition. MZ stands for monozygotic twins and DZ stands for dizygotic twins.