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Table 3 Longitudinal analyses: heritabilities (h2), correlations (ρG, ρE, ρP), and proportion of additive genetic variance due to the effects of shared genes (ρG2) between the same traits between age-classes from bivariate quantitative genetic analyses of data from subjects measured in both 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

h2[30–39]

h2[50–59]

ρG

ρE

ρP

ρG2

n

Total Cholesterol

0.36

0.29

0.76

0.43

0.55

0.58

393

Systolic Blood Pressure

0.50

0.64

0.45

0.23

0.36

0.20

392

Body Weight

0.40

0.30

0.98

0.66

0.77

0.96

393

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