Table 2

Cross-sectional analyses: heritabilities and correlations between different traits within age-classes from bivariate quantitative genetic analyses of data from Framingham Heart Study subjects measured in the 4th and 6th decades of life.


Heritabilities
CorrelationsA




Trait Pair
Trait 1
Trait 2
ρG
ρE
ρP
n

30-39 Years






     TC, SBP
0.34
0.10
-0.09
0.21
0.15
995
     TC, Wgt
0.34
0.55
0.27
-0.12
0.05
995
     SBP, Wgt
0.10
0.55
0.44
0.23
0.20
995
50-59 Years






     TC, SBP
0.27
0.31
0.49
0.02
0.15
881
     TC, Wgt
0.28
0.45
-0.28
0.05
-0.07
882
     SBP, Wgt
0.29
0.44
0.11
0.18
0.15
882

AρG, genetic correlation; ρE, environmental correlation; ρP, phenotypic correlation.

Havill and Mahaney BMC Genetics 2003 4(Suppl 1):S54   doi:10.1186/1471-2156-4-S1-S54