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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2013 Jan 2;43(9):1857–1868. doi: 10.1017/S0033291712002917

Table 1.

Twin correlations of log-transformed means of alcohol consumption over time

Twin 1
Twin 2 Epoch 1 (age 12–14 years) Epoch 2 (age 15–17 years) Epoch 3 (age 18–21 years) Epoch 4 (age 22–25 years) Epoch 5 (age 26–29 years) Epoch 6 (age 30–33 years)
Monozygotic twins
 Epoch 1 0.24
 Epoch 2 0.26 0.37
 Epoch 3 0.18 0.37 0.56
 Epoch 4 0.14 0.32 0.49 0.51
 Epoch 5 0.12 0.28 0.39 0.45 0.45
 Epoch 6 0.12 0.27 0.36 0.42 0.44 0.44
Dizygotic twins
 Epoch 1 0.28
 Epoch 2 0.24 0.33
 Epoch 3 0.2 0.3 0.38
 Epoch 4 0.2 0.25 0.33 0.25
 Epoch 5 0.19 0.21 0.27 0.17 0.19
 Epoch 6 0.15 0.16 0.21 0.19 0.19 0.23