Table 1. Examples of common disorders and their heritability.
Multifactorial disease | Heritability |
---|---|
Age-related maculopathy | 0.45 |
Age-related macular degeneration | 0.46–0.71 |
Crohn disease | 1.0 |
Prostate cancer | 0.42 |
Breast cancer | 0.27 |
Type 2 diabetes | 0.26 |
Obesity | 0.40–0.54 |
Coronary artery disease (CAD) | 0.49 |
Death from CAD | 0.57a |
0.38b | |
Hypertension | 0.80 |
Males.
Females.
Source: Modified from Lango and Weedon.36 Adapted by permission from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2008 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/ 10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2796).