Fig. 2

Cholesky decomposition with the estimates of A, C, and E on EOE across childhood

The rectangular boxes represent the phenotype Emotional Overeating (EOE) at three time points– 16 months, 5 years, and 12 years. The latent factors are represented with circles and provide the estimates of additive genetic effects (A), shared environmental effects (C), and non-shared environmental effects on EOE. The lines indicate the contribution of A, C, and E at each time point as well as the carry-over effects to the successive time points. Estimates presented are standardised. The solid and dotted lines represent significant and non-significant influence of the latent factors to EOE respectively