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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Aug 30;219(2):679–683. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.08.030

Table 3.

Heritability estimates of log (CAC score) and height; all h2 estimates were significant (P≤0.001).

Trait h2 (SE) Covariate variance* % of variance explained by genetic factors†
Log (CAC score)
0.645‡ (0.106) 0.31 44.5%
0.648§ (0.102) 0.38 40.2%
Height
0.824‡ (0.092) 0.63 30.5%
0.816§ (0.093) 0.64 29.4%

h2, heritability; CAC, coronary artery calcification; SE, standard error

*

Proportion of variance explained by covariates

†

Calculated as [(1-proportion of variance explained by covariates)*h2]*100

‡

Adjusted for age and sex

§

Adjusted for age, sex, hypertension status, total cholesterol level, ever smoked, waist circumference, college education, and diabetes status