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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct 6;173(4):385–391. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15050605

Table 2.

Differential Heritability of PPI and P50 Gating Measures in Nuclear Families with Positive vs. Negative Family History

Endophenotype All 296 Families 97 FH+ Families 96 FH− Families
No. h2r ± SE P value No. h2r ± SE P value No. h2r ± SE P value
PPI 701 0.29 ± 0.09 0.0004 242 0.47 ± 0.13 0.017 215 0.02 ± 0.17 ns
Startle Magnitude 821 0.62 ± 0.07 <0.0001 278 0.54 ± 0.11 <0.0001 259 0.60 ± 0.14 <0.0001

P50 Gating 568 0.20 ± 0.10 0.019 192 0.36 ± 0.17 0.011 175 0.03 ± 0.17 ns
P50 S1 564 0.39 ± 0.10 <0.0001 190 0.80 ± 0.20 <0.0001 175 0.35 ± 0.20 0.034
P50 S2 564 0.27 ± 0.11 0.005 191 0.19 ± 0.18 ns 174 0.36 ± 0.19 0.026

Continuous Performance Test 881 0.34 ± 0.06 <0.0001 294 0.31 ± 0.11 0.001 283 0.29 ± 0.12 0.005
Letter-Number Span 951 0.34 ± 0.06 <0.0001 320 0.31 ± 0.11 0.001 301 0.41 ± 0.13 <0.0001
Verbal Learning 949 0.26 ± 0.06 <0.0001 323 0.28 ± 0.12 0.004 299 0.31 ± 0.10 0.001

Key: FH+ = multiply affected families with a positive history for schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder; FH− = singleton families with only the required schizophrenia proband and no evidence of other major psychiatric disorders. Nonsignifcant p values >0.10 are indicated as “ns”. For the cognitive measures shown for comparison, Continuous Performance Test refers to the Degraded Stimulus version d′ measure, Letter-Number Span was the reordered condition, and Verbal Learning refers to the California Verbal Learning Test list A total recall score.