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Table 2 Cross-sectional analyses: heritabilities and correlations between different traits within age-classes from bivariate quantitative genetic analyses of data from Framingham Heart Study subjects measured in the 4th and 6th decades of life.

From: Pleiotropic effects on cardiovascular risk factors within and between the fourth and sixth decades of life: Implications for genotype × age interactions

 

Heritabilities

CorrelationsA

 

Trait Pair

Trait 1

Trait 2

ρG

ρE

ρP

n

30-39 Years

      

   TC, SBP

0.34

0.10

-0.09

0.21

0.15

995

   TC, Wgt

0.34

0.55

0.27

-0.12

0.05

995

   SBP, Wgt

0.10

0.55

0.44

0.23

0.20

995

50-59 Years

      

   TC, SBP

0.27

0.31

0.49

0.02

0.15

881

   TC, Wgt

0.28

0.45

-0.28

0.05

-0.07

882

   SBP, Wgt

0.29

0.44

0.11

0.18

0.15

882

  1. AρG, genetic correlation; ρE, environmental correlation; ρP, phenotypic correlation.