Table 3 Intraclass correlations (s.e.) for current smoking in twins and for smoking among friends, by zygosity and wave (base: twin pairs)

From: Does smoking among friends explain apparent genetic effects on current smoking in adolescence and young adulthood?

 

Wave 1

Wave 2

Wave 3

Wave 4

Current smoking in twins

Pearson correlation

MZ

0.65 (0.05)

0.58 (0.04)

0.52 (0.05)

0.44 (0.06)

DZS

0.35 (0.05)

0.29 (0.04)

0.25 (0.05)

0.24 (0.06)

2(rMZrDZ)a

0.61 (0.13)

0.59 (0.12)

0.53 (0.14)

0.39 (0.17)

Tetrachoric correlation

MZ

0.89 (0.03)

0.82 (0.04)

0.75 (0.05)

0.69 (0.06)

DZS

0.59 (0.06)

0.47 (0.06)

0.41 (0.08)

0.42 (0.08)

2(rMZrDZ)a

0.61 (0.06)

0.71 (0.07)

0.68 (0.09)

0.55 (0.10)

Smoking among friends

Pearson correlation

MZ

0.58 (0.04)

0.45 (0.04)

0.38 (0.04)

0.39 (0.06)

DZS

0.42 (0.03)

0.33 (0.04)

0.19 (0.06)

0.11 (0.05)

2(rMZrDZ)a

0.33 (0.10)

0.23 (0.11)

0.38 (0.14)

0.57 (0.16)

Tetrachoric correlation

MZ

0.80 (0.03)

0.65 (0.05)

0.57 (0.07)

0.58 (0.06)

DZS

0.62 (0.04)

0.50 (0.06)

0.30 (0.08)

0.42 (0.08)

2(rMZrDZ)a

0.37 (0.05)

0.30 (0.07)

0.54 (0.11)

0.32 (0.10)

  1. DZS=same-sex dizygotic or fraternal twins; MZ=monozygotic or identical twins.
  2. a2(rMZrDZ)=provides naive heritability estimates.