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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Genet. 2015 Oct 22;46(2):183–192. doi: 10.1007/s10519-015-9741-7

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics on the twin sample

Pair type Number of complete
pairs
Mean age
(SD)
Prevalence
Drug abuse
(%)
Criminal behavior
(%)
Alcohol use disorders
(%)
Monozygotic twins male–male 2,798 38.3 (8.1) 3.0 14.8 3.4
Dizygotic twins male–male 2,585 40.7 (8.4) 2.2 15.7 4.2
Monozygotic twins female–
female
3,403 38.2 (8.2) 1.6 5.3 1.8
Dizygotic twins female–female 2,853 40.4 (8.5) 1.4 5.6 1.8
Dizygotic twins male–female 8,964 37.4 (10.1) M: 4.2 F:2.1 M: 16.8 F: 6.4 M: 4.9 F:2.2