The influence of twin pair permutation on likelihood-based-estimates of genetic variance that require ordering of twin-pairs.

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Results from analyses of twin data that use models assuming a bivariate distribution of twin values will change when twins within pairs are reordered. We examined the effect of twin pair ordering on additive genetic variance estimates and hypothesis tests, from a bivariate normal model, both via simulation and through examination of real twin data. The simulations generated twin data for varying sample sizes and...

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