Relative effect of genetic and environmental factors on body height: Differences across birth cohorts among finnish men and women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 627-630

  Silventoinen, Karri ^a   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a   Lahelma, Eero ^a   Koskenvuo, Markku ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINLAND; GENETIC MODEL; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TWINS;

EID: 0034108426     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.90.4.627     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Nance WE, Pandya A, Maes H, et al. The PHOG gene on Xpter-p22.32 appears to be GTL for stature in adolescent twins. Twin Res. 1998;1:103.
2. Butler NR, Goldstein H. Smoking in pregnancy and subsequent child development. BMJ. 1973; 4:573-575.
3. Kusin JA, Kardjati S, Houtkooper JM, Renqvist UH. Energy supplementation during pregnancy and postnatal growth. Lancet. 1992;340: 623-626.
4. Malcolm L. Protein-energy malnutrition and growth. In: Falkner F, Tanner JM, eds. Human Growth 3 Neurobiology and Nutrition. New York, NY: Plenum Press; 1979:361-372.
5. Malleson PN. Pain syndromes, disability, and chronic disease in childhood. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 1991;3:860-866.
6. Post GB, Kemper HCG, Welten DC. Dietary pattern and growth of 10-12-year-old Bolivian girls and boys: relation between altitude and socioeconomic status. Am J Hum Biol. 1997;9: 51-62.
7. Skuse D, Albanese A, Stanhope R, Gilmour J, Voss L. A new stress-related syndrome of growth failure and hyperphagia in children, associated with reversibility of growth-hormone insufficiency. Lancet. 1996;348: 353-358.
8. Pearson K, Lee A. On the laws on inheritance in man. Biometrika. 1903;2:356-462.
9. Crow JF, Kimura M. An Introduction to Population Genetics Theory. New York, NY: Harper & Row; 1970.
10. Stunkard AJ, Foch TT, Hrubec Z. A twin study of human obesity. JAMA. 1986;256:51-54.
11. Roberts DF, Billewicz WZ, McGregor IA. Heritability of stature in a West African population. Ann Hum Genet. 1978;42:15-24.
12. Solomon PJ, Thompson EA. The inheritance of height in a Finnish population. Ann Hum Biol. 1983;10:247-256.
13. Steckel RH. Stature and the standard of living. J Econ Lit. 1995;33:1903-1940.
14. Tanner JM. Growth as a measure of the nutritional and hygienic status of a population. Horm Res. 1992;38(suppl 1): 106-115.
15. Mueller WH. Parent-child correlations for stature and weight among school-aged children: a review of 24 studies. Hum Biol. 1976;48: 379-397.
16. Hjerppe R. The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change. Helsinki, Finland: Bank of Finland; 1989.
17. Tiisala R, Kantero R-L. Some parent-child correlations for height, weight and skeletal age up to 10 years. Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl. 1971; 220:42-48.
18. Stinson S. Sex differences in environmental sensitivity during growth and development. Yearbook Phys Anthropol. 1985;28:123-147.
19. Kaprio J, Sarna S, Koskenvuo M, Rantasalo J. The Finnish Twin Registry: formation and compilation, questionnaire study, zygosity determination procedures and research program. Prog Clin Biol Res. 1978;24b:179-184.
20. Honkasalo M-L, Kaprio J, Heikkilä K, Sillanpää M, Koskenvuo M. A population-based survey of headache and migraine in 22 809 adults. Headache. 1993;33:403-412.
21. Korkeila M, Kaprio J, Rissanen A, Koskenvuo M, Sörensen TIA. Predictors of major weight gain in adult Finns: stress, life satisfaction and personality traits. Int J Obes. 1998;22:949-957.
22. Sarna S, Kaprio J, Sistonen P, Koskenvuo M. Diagnosis of twin zygosity by mailed questionnaire. Hum Hered. 1978;28:241-254.
23. Neale MC, Cardon LR. Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publisher; 1992.
24. Liang K, Zeger S. Longitudinal data analysis using generalised linear models. Biometrika. 1986;73:13-22.
25. Christian J, Kang K, Norton J. Choice of an estimate of genetic variance from twin data. Am J Hum Genet. 1974;26:154-161.
26. Williams CJ, Christian JC, Norton JA. TWINAN90: a FORTRAN program for conducting ANOVA-based and likelihood-based analyses of twin data. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1992;38:167-176.
27. Neale MC. Mx: Statistical Modelling [computer program]. Richmond, Va: Dept of Psychiatry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University; 1994.
28. Spuhler JN. Assortative mating with respect to physical characteristics. Soc Biol. 1982;29: 53-66.
29. Epstein E, Guttman R. Mate selection in man: evidence, theory, and outcome. Soc Biol. 1984; 31:243-278.
30. Yarnell JWG, Limb ES, Layzell JM, Baker IA. Height: a risk marker for ischaemic heart disease: prospective results from the Caerphilly and Speedwell Heart Disease Studies. Eur Heart J. 1992;13:1602-1605.
31. Leon DA, Davey Smith G, Shipley M, Strachan D. Adult height and mortality in London: early life, socioeconomic confounding, or shrinkage. J Epidemiol Community Health. 1995;49:5-9.