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. 2021 Sep 8;10:e60389. doi: 10.7554/eLife.60389

Author response table 1. Twin Sensitivity Analysis: Association Between Telomere Length at Year 1 and Growth.

Exposure Outcome N 10th Percentile 90th Percentile Outcome, 90th Percentile v. 10th Percentile
Adjusted
Predicted Outcome at 10th Percentile Predicted Outcome at 90th Percentile Coefficient (95% CI) P-value
Telomere length at Year 1 LAZ Year 1 635 1.2 1.7 -1.52 -1.32 0.2 (0.02, 0.37) 0.03*
WAZ Year 1 634 1.2 1.7 -1.18 -1.20 -0.02 (-0.22, 0.19) 0.89
WLZ Year 1 633 1.2 1.7 -0.66 -0.83 -0.17 (-0.37, 0.03) 0.10
HCZ Year 1 635 1.2 1.7 -1.72 -1.73 -0.01 (-0.2, 0.18) 0.92
LAZ Year 2 540 1.2 1.7 -1.50 -1.44 0.06 (-0.04, 0.16) 0.21
WAZ Year 2 540 1.2 1.7 -1.74 -1.69 0.05 (-0.05, 0.16) 0.35
WLZ Year 2 566 1.2 1.7 -0.97 -1.00 -0.03 (-0.15, 0.08) 0.58
HCZ Year 2 563 1.2 1.7 -1.87 -1.82 0.04 (-0.13, 0.21) 0.65
Change in LAZ between Year 1 and Year 2 566 1.2 1.7 -0.24 -0.29 -0.05 (-0.14, 0.05) 0.35
Change in WAZ between Year 1 and Year 2 570 1.2 1.7 -0.37 -0.38 -0.01 (-0.11, 0.09) 0.87
Change in WLZ between Year 1 and Year 2 563 1.2 1.7 -0.25 -0.22 0.03 (-0.1, 0.17) 0.66
Change in HCZ between Year 1 and Year 2 543 1.2 1.7 -0.16 -0.11 0.06 (-0.05, 0.17) 0.32
Length velocity between Year 1 and Year 2 539 1.2 1.7 0.80 0.80 0 (-0.02, 0.03) 0.76
Weight velocity between Year 1 and Year 2 539 1.2 1.7 0.15 0.15 0 (-0.01, 0.01) 0.84
Head circumference velocity between Year 1 and Year 2 543 1.2 1.7 0.15 0.16 0.01 (0, 0.02) 0.14

N, 10th Percentile, and 90th Percentile are from the adjusted analyses.

P-value < 0.05 after adjusting for multiple comparisons using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure.