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Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2016 Jun 15;19(4):341–350. doi: 10.1017/thg.2016.46

Table 1.

Polychoric correlations for migraine and depression according to twin zygosity

Two category broad classification*

Broad migraine

Zygosity [N] MZFF [1623] MZMM [833] DZFF [1064] DZMM [589] DZFM [1210]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.45 (0.03) 0.43 (0.05) 0.31 (0.05) 0.25 (0.07) 0.12 (0.05)
95% CI (0.39–0.52) (0.33–0.53) (0.23–0.40) (0.12–0.38) (0.03–0.21)

Broad depression

Zygosity [N] MZFF [1623] MZMM [833] DZFF [1064] DZMM [589] DZFM [1210]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.43 (0.03) 0.37 (0.05) 0.10 (0.05) 0.34 (0.06) 0.13 (0.05)
95% CI (0.37–0.50) (0.27–0.47) (3×10−3–0.19) (0.22–0.46) (0.04–0.21)

Three category broad classification^

Broad migraine

Zygosity [N] MZFF [1623] MZMM [833] DZFF [1064] DZMM [589] DZFM [1210]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.52 (0.02) 0.42 (0.04) 0.36 (0.03) 0.30 (0.06) 0.28 (0.04)
95% CI (0.47–0.57) (0.33–0.51) (0.30–0.43) (0.19–0.41) (0.21–0.36)

Broad depression

Zygosity [N] MZFF [1623] MZMM [833] DZFF [1064] DZMM [589] DZFM [1210]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.46 (0.03) 0.37 (0.05) 0.12 (0.04) 0.29 (0.06) 0.13 (0.04)
95% CI (0.40–0.52) (0.28–0.47) (0.04–0.21) (0.17–0.40) (0.05–0.22)

Two category narrow classification#

IHS MO/MA

Zygosity [N] MZFF [722] MZMM [498] DZFF [583] DZMM [348] DZFM [642]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.84 (0.03) 0.69 (0.08) 0.48 (0.06) 0.50 (0.11) 0.60 (0.06)
95% CI (0.79–0.89) (0.54–0.84) (0.36–0.59) (0.29–0.71) (0.49–0.71)

MDD

Zygosity [N] MZFF [1401] MZMM [695] DZFF [902] DZMM [512] DZFM [1024]
ρpolychoric (sd) 0.53 (0.03) 0.45 (0.06) 0.15 (0.05) 0.30 (0.07) 0.16 (0.05)
95% CI (0.47–0.60) (0.34–0.55) (0.05–0.25) (0.16–0.44) (0.06–0.26)

ρ polychoric: polychoric correlation; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; sd: standard deviation; MZFF: female MZ twins; MZMM: male MZ twins; DZFF: female DZ twins; DZMM: male DZ twins; DZFM: opposite-sex DZ twins; N: number of twin pairs.

*

Two phenotype categories for broad migraine: non-migraine and self-report/ID migraine/IHS MO/MA; two phenotype categories for broad depression: non-depressed and MiDD/MDD.

^

Three phenotype categories for broad migraine: non-migraine, self-report/ID migraine and IHS MO/MA; three phenotype categories for broad depression: non-depressed, MiDD and MDD.

#

Two phenotype categories for narrow migraine: non-migraine and IHS MO/MA; two phenotype categories for narrow depression: non-depressed and MDD.