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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2010 Mar;40(2):135–145. doi: 10.1007/s10519-009-9328-2

Table 4.

Standardized Cholesky path coefficients from initial genetic (A1), shared environmental (C1) and nonshared environmental (E1) factors shared between brain area variables and cognitive measures, from four separate Cholesky decompositions

Genetic Path Coefficients
Path TBV NeoC WMat PFC
a11 .89 (.70, .98)* .54(.27, .77)* .77(.44, .87)* .62(.19, .88)*
VIQ a21 .23 (−.09, .48) .45 (.01, .77)* .27 (−.11, .66) .41 (−.11, .82)
PIQ a31 .57 (.32, .78)* .67 (.27, .87)* .47 (.19, .85)* .59 (.12, .87)*
Reading a41 .27 (.04, .49)* .12 (−.30, .51) .22 (−.10, .64) .15 (−.43, .56)
Processing Speed a51 .48 (.22, .70)* .40 (.01, .72)* .58 (.25, .83)* .24 (−.24, .71)

Shared Environmental Path Coefficients
Path TBV NeoC WMat PFC

c11 .39 (0, .68) .75(.52, .88)* .19(0, .64) .59(0, .82)
VIQ c21 −.16 (−.60, .55) −.31 (−.58, .03) .15 (−.61, .64) −.32 (−.66, .21)
PIQ c31 −.18 (−.55, .49) −.02 (−.31, .29) −.23 (−.61, .58) −.02 (−.44, .40)
Reading c41 −.04 (−.35, .31) .10 (−.16, .34) −.10 (−.45, .37) −.01 (−.32, .31)
Processing Speed c51 −.37 (−.80, .80) −.13 (−.48, .21) −.63 (−.80, .80) .06 (−.71, .74)

Nonshared Environmental Path Coefficients
Path TBV NeoC WMat PFC

e11 .22 (.17, .29)* .37(.29, .48)* .60(.48, .75)* .53(.41, .66)*
VIQ e21 .05 (−.12, .21) .05 (−.11, .22) .01 (−.14, .17) .02 (−.13, .19)
PIQ e31 −.04 (−.22, .14) .12 (−.04, .31) −.09 (−.25, .08) −.01 (−.18, .17)
Reading e41 −.02 (−.22, .18) .04 (−.17, .23) .03 (−.13, .24) .02 (−.15, .22)
Processing Speed e51 −.01 (−.14, .13) .05 (−.08, .20) −.05 (−.16, .08) .05 (−.09, .19)

TBV= Total Brain Volume, NeoC= Neocortex, WMat= White Matter, and PFC= Prefrontal Cortex

*

Indicates path coefficient is significant, as indicated by 95% confidence interval above zero.

Diagonals of the matrices were bound to above zero, so confidence intervals could not go below zero for these values, but they should be assumed to be non-significant.