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Chunk #6 — Method — Assessment

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Predicting alcohol consumption in adolescence from alcohol-specific and general externalizing genetic risk factors, key environmental exposures and their interaction.
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scale whereas scores from the DZ co-twins and parents were adjusted half way back to the mean score of 0.5 (thus based on a uniform distribution on 0.25–0.75) to reflect the fact that MZ twins are twice as similar genetically as DZ twin or parent–offspring pairs. In effect, this results in scores from MZ co-twins being weighted twice as strongly as scores from DZ co-twins or parents.