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Table 2 Heritability estimatesa for obesity-related traits among women in the Minnesota Family Study.

From: Linkage analysis of obesity phenotypes in pre- and post-menopausal women from a United States mid-western population

Obesity traitb

Pre-menopausal women (n = 172)

Post-menopausal women (n = 405)

BMI

0.94

0.39

WHR

0.38

0.57

Waist circumference

0.29

0.61

Hip circumference

0.99

0.43

  1. aHeritability is the proportion of interindividual phenotypic variance explained by additive genetic factors, measured on a scale from 0 to 1. Heritability estimates were significantly greater than 0 (P < 0.001) except waist circumference (P = 0.11) and WHR (P = 0.05) among pre-menopausal women. Obesity traits were adjusted for age, parity, education, smoking, physical activity, and oophorectomy. BMI was not adjusted in model estimates of heritability.
  2. bBMI, body mass index; WHR, waist to hip ratio.
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BMC Medical Genetics

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