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Analysis of family resemblance for lipids and lipoproteins
Author(s) -
Iselius Lennart
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1979.tb01738.x
Subject(s) - epistasis , dominance (genetics) , genetics , biology , population , path analysis (statistics) , blood lipids , evolutionary biology , cholesterol , endocrinology , medicine , gene , environmental health , statistics , mathematics
A path analysis of published reports on family resemblance reveals an important role for genetic factors in all lipids and lipoproteins, with no evidence of a discrepancy between twins and other relatives (which might be due to dominance or epistasis) nor between studies which used enrivonmental indices and those which did not. Family environment within population is less important and is significantly greater for twins than for other relatives.