Estimation of additive genetic and environmental sources of quantitative trait variation using data on married couples and their siblings

Genetics Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-279

  Kulathinal, Sangita ^a   Gasbarra, Dario ^b   Kinra, Sanjay ^c   Ebrahim, Shah ^c,c   Sillanpää, Mikko J ^b   Reddy, K Srinath ^d   Prabhakaran, Dorairaj ^d   Patel, Tulsi ^d   Ramakrishnan, Lakshmy ^d   Gupta, Ruby ^d   Lyngdoh, Tanica ^d   Ahuja, R C ^d   Saran, R K ^d   Joshi, Prashant ^d   Thakre, N M ^d   Sarma, K V R ^d   Mohan Das, S ^d   Jain, R K ^d   Potnis, S S ^d   Kurpad, Anura V ^d   Vaz, Mario ^d   Barathi, A V ^d   Mohan, Murali ^d   Yajnik, Chittaranjan ^d   Baker, Ian ^d   Smith, George Davey ^d   Shlomo, Yoav Ben ^d   Tilling, Kate ^d   more..

^a Indic Society for Education and Development India   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 47149089629     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672308009348     Document Type: Article

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