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OpenMx (version 2.7.9)

myTwinData:

Description

Data set used in some of OpenMx's examples.

Usage

data("myTwinData")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 3808 observations on the following variables.
fam
Family ID variable
age
Age of the twin pair. Range: 17 to 88.
zyg
Integer codes for zygosity and gender combinations
part
wt1
Weight in kilograms for twin 1
wt2
Weight in kilograms for twin 2
ht1
Height in meters for twin 1
ht2
Height in meters for twin 2
htwt1
Product of ht and wt for twin 1
htwt2
Product of ht and wt for twin 2
bmi1
Body Mass Index for twin 1
bmi2
Body Mass Index for twin 2

Details

Height and weight are highly correlated, and each individually highly heritable. These data present and opportunity for multivariate behavior genetics modeling.

References

The OpenMx User's guide can be found at http://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/documentation.

Examples

Run this code
data(myTwinData)

plot( ht1 ~ wt1, myTwinData)

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