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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2010 Sep 28;213(2):499–504. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.08.079

Table 3.

Bivariate results for HDL and LDL size and concentration variables on three diets; given are residual heritabilities for each trait, the phenotypic (ρP), environmental (ρE), and genetic (ρG) correlations, and an indication of the P-value for tests of the hypothesis of ρX = 0.

Trait1 Trait2 Diet N h2 Trait1 h2 Trait2 ρP ρE ρG
Hmed HDLC Basal 715 0.499 0.685 0.641*** 0.433** 0.803***
Hmed ApoA1 Basal 715 0.516 0.528 0.387*** 0.108 0.643***
HDLC ApoA1 Basal 715 0.689 0.492 0.718*** 0.486** 0.901***

Hmed HDLC HFLC 715 0.570 0.689 0.658*** 0.287 0.883***
Hmed ApoA1 HFLC 715 0.575 0.413 0.384*** 0.058 0.729***
HDLC ApoA1 HFLC 715 0.689 0.409 0.740*** 0.585** 0.922***

Hmed HDLC HFHC 715 0.586 0.632 0.567*** 0.243 0.776***
Hmed ApoA1 HFHC 715 0.592 0.371 0.251*** 0.084 0.443*
HDLC ApoA1 HFHC 715 0.636 0.360 0.757*** 0.701*** 0.877***

Bmed LDLC Basal 713 0.285 0.738 0.248*** 0.104 0.444*
Bmed ApoB Basal 712 0.276 0.460 0.022 −0.048 0.147
LDLC ApoB Basal 714 0.735 0.477 0.706*** 0.458** 0.903***

Bmed LDLC HFLC 715 0.396 0.667 0.292*** 0.356** 0.257*
Bmed ApoB HFLC 715 0.402 0.492 0.071 0.106 0.028
LDLC ApoB HFLC 715 0.651 0.484 0.748*** 0.564** 0.906***

Bmed LDLC HFHC 715 0.544 0.697 0.510*** 0.378* 0.600***
Bmed ApoB HFHC 715 0.559 0.643 0.324*** 0.262* 0.369**
LDLC ApoB HFHC 715 0.697 0.628 0.864*** 0.758*** 0.921***
*

P<.05;

**

P<.001;

***

P<.000001