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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 3.

Standardized variance attributable to A, C and E overall (with 95% confidence intervals), and as a function of each latent factoa

Latent Factor 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)
Total A <0.01 (0–0.04) 0.07 (0–0.18) 0.40 (0.27–0.52) 0.40 (0.26–0.51) 0.40 (0.26–0.49) 0.40 (0.26–0.50)
Total C 0.24 (0.08–0.31) 0.29 (0.18–0.38) 0.17 (0.06–0.29) 0.09 (0.01–0.22) 0.05 (0–0.16) 0.04 (0–0.16)
Total E 0.76 (0.69–0.83) 0.64 (0.58–0.71) 0.43 (0.38–0.49) 0.50 (0.44–0.57) 0.55 (0.49–0.62) 0.55 (0.49–0.63)
A1 <0.01 0.03 0.12 0.28 0.37 0.40
A2 N.A. 0.04 0.28 0.12 0.03 0.01
C1 0.24 0.29 0.17 0.09 0.05 0.04
E1 0.76 0.09 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01
E2 N.A. 0.56 0.04 0.01 0.01 0.01
E3 N.A. N.A. 0.37 0.17 0.06 0.05
E4 N.A. N.A. N.A. 0.31 0.14 0.05
E5 N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 0.33 0.20
E6 N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. 0.24

A, Additive genetic factor ; C, shared environmental factor; E, unique environmental factor ; N.A., not applicable.

a

Totals might differ from 1 due to rounding.