. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010 Jun 19;3(4):386–392. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.110.938381

Table 2.

Heritability estimate of left atrial size

Trait	Significant Covariates						h2 +/−SE	Variance by Covariates
Trait	Age	Sex	Age × Sex	Dyslipidemia	Smoking	BMI	h2 +/−SE	Variance by Covariates
LA diameter	×	×		×	×	×	0.42 ± 0.06	0.32
LA/BSA	×	×	×	×		×	0.35 ± 0.06	0.21
LA/HT	×		×	×		×	0.34 ± 0.05	0.34