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Chunk #3 — Strengths of the MTFS Endophenotype Genetic Analyses — Genetically Informative Sample

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Knowns and unknowns for psychophysiological endophenotypes: integration and response to commentaries.
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Due to the nature of our twin-family sample, the fact that we obtained few significant results cannot easily be dismissed as due to poor measurement. Almost all of our measures showed strong evidence of heritability as well as similarity within monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs. To the extent that MZ twins are parallel forms of the same person, high MZ twin similarity provides direct evidence of measurement reliability.