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  • Title: Cotwin closeness in monozygotic and dizygotic twins: a biasing factor in IQ heritability analysis?
    Author: Tambs K, Sundet JM, Berg K.
    Journal: Acta Genet Med Gemellol (Roma); 1985; 34(1-2):33-9. PubMed ID: 4050293.
    Abstract:
    For 98 pairs of MZ twins, four measures indicating degree of cotwin closeness were correlated with absolute differences between IQ scores within pairs. In two different twin samples (40 MZ vs 40 DZ pairs and 169 MZ vs 174 DZ pairs, respectively), means and standard deviations in the closeness variables were obtained for MZ and DZ pairs. Whereas MZ cotwins were clearly closer than DZ cotwins, the relation between cotwin closeness and similarity in IQ seemed rather weak and ambiguous. "Years lived together in childhood home" were positively related to similarity in IQ (P less than 0.01), whereas subjective feeling of closeness in contact tended to be negatively related to similarity in IQ.
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