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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2014 Mar 11;35(8):1958.e3–1958.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.03.005

Table 2.

Heritability estimates for cognitive variables in related individuals from the Diabetes Heart Study Cohort

Covariates Stroop DSST 3MSE RAVLT Semantic fluency Phonemic fluency
ĥ2 (SE) ĥ2 (SE) ĥ2 (SE) ĥ2 (SE) ĥ2 (SE) ĥ2 (SE)
None 0.43 (0.11) 0.89 (0.10) 0.54 (0.10) 0.60 (0.11) 0.68 (0.11) 0.84 (0.11)
Age, gender 0.33 (0.11) 0.80 (0.11) 0.49 (0.10) 0.45 (0.11) 0.59 (0.11) 0.80 (0.11)
Age, gender, education 0.28 (0.10) 0.62 (0.12) 0.31 (0.10) 0.31 (0.11) 0.40 (0.11) 0.58 (0.12)

All p-values were <0.05.

Key: DSST, digit symbol substitution task; 3MSE, modified mini-mental state examination; RAVLT, rey auditory-verbal learning task; SE, standard error.