Table 2.

Heritability Estimates in the Recent Studies

	Bella et al. (7)*	Garner et al. (10)†	Mayosi et al. (9)‡	Swan et al. (8)§	Post et al. (12)||
Ethnicity	American Indian	White	White	White	White
Data type	Families	Nuclear families	Families	Twins	Relative pairs
LVM	0.17	0.28	0.23	0.69	0.24–0.32
RWT	0.17	—	—	—	—
LVDD	0.33	—	0.19	0.61	—
LVSD	—	—	—	0.27	—
IVS	0.12	—	0.17	0.34	—
PWT	0.09	—	0.06	0.61	—

^*Adjusting for age, gender, research center, weight, height, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, medications, and diabetes.

^†Adjusting for weight.

^‡Adjusting for age, gender, systolic blood pressure, weight, waist-hip ratio, and diabetes.

^§No adjustment for all parameters.

^||Adjusting for gender, age, height, weight, and systolic blood pressure: heritability was 0.32 from sibling pairs, 0.30 from parent-child pairs, and 0.24 from second-degree relative pairs.

Abbreviations as in Table 1.