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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 14;178(11):1060–1069. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20121705

Table 3.

Variance components (95% confidence intervals) from bivariate twin-family modeling results where events of undetermined intent were excluded from the analysis.

Suicide Attempt Women Estimate 95% CI Men Estimate 95% CI
A 0.55 0.55; 0.56 0.35 0.30; 0.35
C 0.00 0.00; 0.00 0.06 0.06; 0.06
E 0.44 0.42; 0.47 0.59 0.59; 0.62

Suicide Death
A 0.46 0.32; 0.61 0.44 0.44; 0.52
C - - - -
E 0.54 0.40; 0.68 0.56 0.48; 0.61

A=additive genetic variance component (heritability); C=common/shared environment variance component; E=unshared environment variance component; HR=hazard ratio; CI=confidence intervals