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. 2013 Aug 21;2013:604587. doi: 10.1155/2013/604587

Table 2.

Concordance rate table. Uncorrected concordance rates in schizophrenia twin studies from around the world and modeling results from fits to these data. Only significant studies published before 1970 are included here so that the updates of these studies could definitively test the predictions of the model.

Investigator Year Country MZ pairs concordance DZ pairs concordance S inher* P s(t,r)# t, (r)
Rosanoff et al. [8] 1934 USA 28/41 = 0.683 15/101 = 0.149 0.190 0.812
Essen-Mo¨ller[9] 1941 Sweden 6/11 = 0.545 4/27 = 0.148 0.224 0.706
Kallmann [10] 1946 USA 120/174 = 0.689 53/517 = 0.102 0.129 0.816 31.0 y, (1.94)
Slater [11] 1953 UK 24/37 = 0.648 10/112 = 0.0892 0.116 0.787
Inouye [12] 1961 Japan 33/55 = 0.600 2/17 = 0.117 0.163 0.750
Harvald and Hauge [13] 1965 Denmark 4/9 = 0.444 6/62 = 0.0967 0.167 0.615
Gottesman and Shields [14, 15] 1966 UK 10/24 = 0.416 3/33 = 0.0909 0.165 0.588 41.0 y, (1)
Kringlen [16] 1966 Norway 19/50 = 0.380 13/94 = 0.138 0.283 0.551
Hoffer and Pollin [17] 1970 USA 11/80 = 0.137 6/145 = 0.0413 0.197 0.242 43 y, (0.631)

*S inher is defined as the probability that a fraternal cotwin of a schizophrenic will also inherit the susceptibility to develop schizophrenia.

# P s(t, r) is the prevalence obtained from a model simulation of twin study concordance results for a susceptible age cohort at age t.