Heritability estimates of obesity measures in siblings with and without hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-47

  Pausova, Zdenka ^a   Gossard, Francis ^a   Gaudet, Daniel ^a   Tremblay, Johanne ^a   Kotchen, Theodore A ^a   Cowley, Allen W ^a   Hamet, Pavel ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetics; Hypertension, essential; Obesity; Siblings

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY FAT; CANADA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE SEGREGATION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0035571081     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.38.1.41     Document Type: Article

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