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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: Top Lang Disord. 2012 Jul-Sep;32(3):207–227. doi: 10.1097/TLD.0b013e318261ffdd

Table 5.

Concordance rates for ADHD in MZ and DZ twins (taken from Willcutt et al., 2010)

Number of pairs Probandwise concordance %

MZ DZ MZ DZ

Goodman & Stevenson (1989) 39 54 51 33
Levy et al. (1997) 57 46 82 38
Levy et al (2001) 138 109 67 42
Sherman et al (1997) 69 32 58 31
Thapar et al. (2001) 175* 410* 79 54
Todd et al. (2001) 72 135 68 22
Willcutt et al. (2000) 88 82 78 38
Willcutt et al. (2007) 83 78 68 24
Weighted average 71 41
*

specific Ns were not provided, so Ns are estimated based on the total sample and the 80th percentile threshold were used to define ADHD probands.