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. 2015 Oct 14;46:59–71. doi: 10.1007/s10519-015-9752-4

Table 3.

The proportion of variance explained in the latent depression phenotype by the additive genetic factor (heritability; h2), the unique environment (e2), and the common environment (c2) at each occasion (year of data collection)

Occasion MZ DZ h2 e2 c2
Twin 1 Twin 2 Twin 1 Twin 2
1991 290 297 456 450 0.52 (0.37; 0.61) 0.46 (0.38; 0.57) 0.03 (0.01; 0.15)
1995 300 306 426 432 0.62 (0.51; 0.70) 0.37 (0.29; 0.45) 0.02 (0.01; 0.14)
1997 342 335 334 343 0.63 (0.48; 0.71) 0.35 (0.28; 0.45) 0.04 (0.01; 0.21)
2000 472 457 409 420 0.52 (0.35; 0.61) 0.45 (0.38; 0.54) 0.04 (0.01; 0.20)
2002 221 227 178 170 0.51 (0.40; 0.59) 0.48 (0.40; 0.55) 0.03 (0.01; 0.15)
2009 891 896 874 835 0.51 (0.41; 0.58) 0.47 (0.42; 0.53) 0.02 (0.00; 0.11)
2011 144 149 171 172 0.52 (0.37; 0.60) 0.46 (0.40; 0.54) 0.04 (0.01; 0.21)
2013 486 479 517 543 0.50 (0.40; 0.57) 0.49 (0.43; 0.56) 0.02 (0.01; 0.10)

The 99 % Highest Posterior Density regions are in brackets for h2, e2, and c2