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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 3.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2009 Jun 10;45(5):892–897. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2009.05.028

Table 2.

Additive genetic effect on bone geometry measures.

Variable h2 p-value Variance due to
covariates		 Total variance
due to additive
genetic effects
CSA 0.50±0.30 0.0218 54% 23%
IMAX 0.36±0.21 0.0159 59% 15%
IMIN 0.42±0.23 0.0102 59% 17%
J 0.40±0.22 0.0096 59% 16%

h2 = heritability estimate = proportion of variance due to the additive effects of genes.

Covariates: age, sex, age*sex