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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Neurol. 2019 May 20;86(1):91–98. doi: 10.1002/ana.25499

Table 2.

Results of mixed effects models, testing for correlation of age at onset within families after adjusting for epilepsy type, sex, ascertainment site, history of febrile seizure, and age at last observation.

Abbreviations: ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.

Model N of individuals (families) ICC p-valuea
All families 1,008 (300) 0.17 < 0.001
Generalized families 373 (115) 0.29 <0.001
 - Additional adjustment for subtype/syndromeb 0.11 0.02
Focal families 206 (62) 0.19 0.002
 - Additional adjustment for subtype/syndromeb 0.15 0.01
a

Likelihood ratio test

b

For list of the epilepsy syndromes/subtypes within generalized and focal epilepsies, see Table 1 and Methods.