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I think they usually use twin studies to try to compensate for heritability but I couldn't find any mention of it in the article.



I think they usually _don’t_ use twin studies because they are harder/more expensive. In this case they used the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort:

https://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/philadelphianeurodevelopmental...

I don’t see any mention of twins here or on JAMA, although I can’t access the full text currently.




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