Multifactorial analysis of a mixed-longitudinal sample of Indian siblings: Age and sex effects on heritability

HOMO- Journal of Comparative Human Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 373-388

  Salces, I ^a   Rebato, E ^a   Susanne, C ^b   Hauspie, R C ^b   Saha, R ^c   Fernandez Lopez J R ^a   Dasgupta, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c Department of Anthropology ^*  (India)

^d INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIBLING;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIBLINGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650716344     PISSN: 0018442X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchb.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Arya R., Duggirala R., Comuzzie A.G., Puppala S., Modem S., Busi B.R., and Crawford M.H. Heritability of anthropometric phenotypes in caste populations of Visakhapatnam, India. Hum. Biol. 74 (2002) 325-344
2. Byard P.J., Guo S., and Roche A.F. Family resemblance for patterns of growth in early childhood. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 3 (1991) 331-337
3. Cole T.J. Fitting smoothed centile curves to reference data. J. R. Stat. Soc. A 151 (1988) 385-418
4. Cole T.J., and Green P.J. Smoothing reference centile curves: The LMS method and penalized likelihood. Stat. Med. 11 (1992) 1305-1319
5. Das, S.R., 1985a. Mixed Longitudinal Growth Data for 22 Measures, The Sarsuna Barisha Series, West Bengal, India, vol. 1. Boys. Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
6. Das, S.R., 1985b. Mixed Longitudinal Growth Data for 22 Measures, The Sarsuna Barisha Series, West Bengal, India, vol. 2. Girls. Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
7. Fishbein S. Onset of puberty in MZ and DZ twins. Acta Genet. Med. Gemel. (Roma) 26 (1977) 151-158
8. Gu C., Rice T., Pérusse L., Bouchard C., and Rao D.C. Principal components analysis of morphological measures in the Québec Family Study: familial correlations. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 9 (1997) 725-733
9. Hauspie R.C., and Susanne C. Genetics of child growth. In: Ulijaszek S.J., Johnston F.E., and Preece M.A. (Eds). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development (1998), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 124-127
10. Hauspie R.C., Susanne C., and Defrise-Gussenhove E. Testing for the presence of genetic variance in factors of face measurements of Belgian twins. Ann. Hum. Biol. 12 (1985) 429-440
11. Hauspie R.C., Das S.R., Preece M.A., and Tanner J.M. A longitudinal study of the growth in height of boys and girls of West Bengal (India) aged six months to 20 years. Ann. Hum. Biol. 7 (1980) 429-441
12. Howells W.W. Correlations of brothers in factor scores. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 11 (1953) 121-140
13. Katzmarzyk P.T., Mahaney M.C., Blangero J., Quek J.-J., and Malina R.M. Potential effects of ethnicity in genetics and environmental sources of variability in the stature, mass, and body mass index of children. Hum. Biol. 71 (1999) 977-987
14. Lauderdale D.S., and Rathouz P.J. Evidence of environmental suppression of familial resemblance: height among US Civil War brothers. Ann. Hum. Biol. 26 (1999) 413-426
15. Livshits G., Yakovenko K., Ginsburg E., and Kobyliansky E. Genetics of human body size and shape: pleiotropic and independent genetic determinants of adiposity. Ann. Hum. Biol. 25 (1998) 221-236
16. Loesch D.Z., Hopper J.L., Rogucka E., and Huggins R.M. Timing and genetic rapport between growth in skeletal maturity and height around puberty: similarities and differences between girls and boys. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 56 (1995) 753-759
17. Martin R. Lehrbuch der Anthropologie Erster Band-Somatologie (1928), Gustav Fisher, Jena
18. Mueller W.H., and Titcomb M. Genetic and environmental determinants of growth of school-aged children in a rural Colombian population. Ann. Hum. Biol. 4 (1977) 1-15
19. Nikolova M. Similarities in anthropometric traits of children and their parents in a Bulgarian population. Ann. Hum. Genet. 60 (1996) 517-525
20. Province M.A., and Rao D.C. General purpose model and a computer program for combined segregation and path analysis (SEGPATH): automatically creating computer programs from symbolic language model specifications. Genet. Epidemiol. 12 (1995) 203-219
21. Rao D.C., Laskarzewski P.M., Morrison J.A., Khoury P., Kelly K., Wette R., Russell J., and Glueck C.J. The Cincinnati Lipid Research Clinic Family Study: cultural and biological determinants of lipids and lipoprotein concentrations. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 34 (1982) 888-903
22. Rebato E., Salces I., Saha R., Sinha M., Susanne C., Hauspie R.C., and Dasgupta P. Age trends of sibling resemblance for height, weight and BMI during growth in a mixed longitudinal sample from Sarsuna-Barisha, India. Ann. Hum. Biol. 32 (2005) 339-350
23. Roche A.F. Growth, Maturation and Body Composition. The Fels Longitudinal Study 1929-1991. Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology (1992), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
24. Roche, A.F., Chumlea, W.M.C., Thissen, D., 1988. Assessing the Skeletal Maturity of the Hand-Wrist: Fels Method. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, USA.
25. Salces I., Rebato E., Susanne C., Hauspie R.C., Saha R., and Dasgupta P. Heritability variations of morphometric traits in West Bengal (India) children aged 4-19 years: a mixed longitudinal growth study. Ann. Hum. Biol. 34 (2007) 226-239
26. Sharma J.C. The genetic contribution to pubertal growth and development studied by longitudinal growth data on twins. Ann. Hum. Biol. 10 (1983) 163-171
27. Silventoinen K., Kaprio J., Lahelma E., and Koskenvuo M. Relative effect of genetic and environmental factors on body height: differences across birth cohorts among Finnish men and women. Am. J. Public Health 90 (2000) 627-630
28. Susanne C. Genetic and environmental influences on morphological characteristics. Ann. Hum. Biol. 2 (1975) 279-287
29. Thomis M.A., and Towne B. Genetic determinants of pre-pubertal and pubertal growth and development. Food Nutrit. Bull. 27 (2006) S257-S278
30. Towne B., Parks J.S., Guo S., and Siervogel R. Quantitative genetic analysis of associations between pubertal growth-pattern parameters (abstract). Am. J. Hum. Genet. 57 (1995) 989