Table 3.

Bivariate linkage of geometric properties measured by HSA with height and BMI. LOD scores ≥ 3.01 are in bold

Chr. #	Position	Geometric Trait	Univariate LOD Geom. Trait	Bivariate with Height			Univariate LOD for Height	Bivariate with BMI			Univariate LOD for BMI
				LOD	${\text{h}}_{\text{q, geom. trait}}^2$	${\text{h}}_{\text{q, Height}}^2$		LOD	${\text{h}}_{\text{q, geom. trait}}^2$	${\text{h}}_{\text{q, BMI}}^2$
2	(80 cM)	S CSA	2.37	1.56	0.28	0.09	<1.0	2.23	0.32	0.19	1.09
4	(124 cM)	NN section modulus	2.90	2.05	0.31	0.13	<1.0	2.17	0.34	0.00	0
	(185 cM)	S CSA	<1.0	<1.0	0.16	0.03		2.06	0.20	0.01
6	(159 cM)	IT Outer diameter	2.38	2.13	0.26	0.10	<1.0	2.22	0.24	0.09	<1.0
	(181 cM)	S CSA	2.80	2.34	0.30	0.08	<1.0	2.66	0.29	0.18	1.28
		S section modulus	3.00	2.08	0.26	0.07		2.66	0.27	0.18
9	(109 cM)	NN CSA	1.10	1.04	0.19	0.09	0	2.50	0.32	0.19	2.80
		S CSA	1.36	1.73	0.26	0.08		2.44	0.33	0.24
15	(43 cM)	FNL	2.41	1.57	0.28	0.01	0	2.12	0.29	0.07	0
21	(3 cM)	S section modulus	3.35	2.45	0.31	0.14	1.02	2.73	0.33	0.16	<1.0
X	(133 cM)	S Outer diameter	3.77	3.28	0.34	0.07	0	2.97	0.33	0.04	0

Bold font: LOD scores “suggestive” for linkage (corrected for multiple testing LODs > 3.2)