Heritabilities and shared environmental effects were estimated from household clustering in national health survey data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1191-1198

  Saunders, Catherine L ^a   Gulliford, Martin C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Genetic epidemiology; Health Survey for England 1998; Heritability; Household clustering; Variance components

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HERITABILITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STANDARDIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33749441783     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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