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The latent class twin method.

Biometrics - 1 Sept 2016

Baker Stuart G

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The twin method refers to the use of data from same-sex identical and fraternal twins to estimate the genetic and environmental contributions to a trait or outcome. The standard twin method is the variance component twin method that estimates heritability, the fraction of variance attributed to additive genetic inheritance. The latent class twin method estimates two quantities that are easier to interpret than...

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PMID: 26753781
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12460
PMCID: PMC4940346

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