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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Jan 28;149:49–54. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.01.016

Table 2c.

Tetrachoric correlations (and 95% confidence intervals) in male–male near-age sibling pairs within and between cannabis, stimulant and sedative abuse (N = 76,457).

Male near-age sibling pairs Twin 1 cannabis Twin 1 stimulant Twin 1 sedatives Twin 2 cannabis Twin 2 stimulants
Twin 1 stimulant 0.85 (0.84; 0.87)
Twin 1 sedatives 0.80 (0.78; 0.82) 0.84 (0.82; 0.86)
Twin 2 cannabis 0.52 (0.49; 0.55) 0.47 (0.43; 0.50) 0.47 (0.42; 0.51)
Twin 2 stimulants 0.46 (0.43; 0.50) 0.51 (0.47; 0.54) 0.48 (0.43; 0.52) 0.83 (0.82; 0.85)
Twin 2 sedatives 0.46 (0.42; 0.51) 0.50 (0.46; 0.54) 0.53 (0.48; 0.57) 0.79 (0.77; 0.81) 0.85 (0.83; 0.86)