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. 2013 Jul 8;21(3):368–389. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpt005

Table 1.

Biases in the genetic and environmental variance components as a function of G × E interaction between the genetic and common environmental variance components

Simulated interaction pathway
0 0.5 1 1.5 2
Genetic variance component 0 0 0.2 0.5 0.69 0.8
0.1 0 0.18 0.45 0.62 0.72
0.2 0 0.16 0.4 0.55 0.64
0.3 0 0.14 0.35 0.48 0.56
0.4 0 0.12 0.3 0.41 0.47
0.5 0 0.1 0.24 0.34 0.38
0.6 0 0.06 0.18 0.25 0.3
Common environment variance component 0.6 0 −0.12 −0.3 −0.42 −0.48
0.5 0 −0.1 −0.25 −0.35 −0.4
0.4 0 −0.08 −0.2 −0.28 −0.32
0.3 0 −0.06 −0.15 −0.21 −0.24
0.2 0 −0.04 −0.1 −0.13 −0.15
0.1 0 −0.02 −0.05 −0.06 −0.06
0 0 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02
Unique environment variance component 0.4 0 −0.08 −0.2 −0.28 −0.32