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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2016 Oct 11;45(1):66–73. doi: 10.1111/cdoe.12261

Table 2. Heritability of Dental fear and Fear of Pain Assessment Scores.

Phenotype h2 (±SE) R2 p
Dental Fear Survey
 Total Score 0.30 (±0.08) 0.03 < 0.001
 Avoidance Subscale 0.22 (±0.08) 0.02 < 0.01
 Specific Stimuli Subscale 0.36 (±0.08) 0.02 < 0.001
 Physiological Arousal Subscale 0.14 (±0.08) 0.04 < 0.01
Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9
 Total Score 0.35 (±0.08) 0.05 < 0.001
 Fear of Minor Pain Subscale 0.16 (±0.08) 0.02 < 0.05
 Fear of Severe Pain Subscale 0.30 (±0.08) 0.05 < 0.001
 Fear of Medical/Dental Pain Subscale 0.35 (±0.08) 0.04 < 0.001

Note. h2 = Residual Heritability estimate, % of the phenotype that is accounted for by genetics; R2= Proportion of variance of outcome that is due to those factors that have been controlled (id est, sex and age).