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. 2012 Mar 9;12:7. doi: 10.1186/1472-6831-12-7

Table 3.

Heritability estimates for DMFS index, PCs, and FACs

Phenotype h2 h2 SE p-value R2
DMFS 0.418 0.164 0.008 0.054
PCA
 PC1 0.404 0.160 0.009 0.095
 PC2 0.149 0.171 0.190 0.017
 PC3 0.000 - 0.500 0.037
 PC4 0.174 0.234 0.231 0.004
 PC5 0.373 0.207 0.043 0.021
 PC6 0.027 0.236 0.455 0.001
 PC7 0.503 0.221 0.020 0.004
 PC8 0.000 - 0.500 0.003
 PC9 0.000 - 0.500 0.006
 PC10 0.000 - 0.500 0.001
FA
 FAC1 0.157 0.181 0.194 0.033
 FAC2 0.000 - 0.500 0.014
 FAC3 0.653 0.198 0.006 0.010
 FAC4 0.274 0.239 0.135 0.058
 FAC5 0.019 0.161 0.454 0.017
 FAC6 0.302 0.153 0.027 0.009
 FAC7 0.000 - 0.500 0.015
 FAC8 0.000 - 0.500 0.018
 FAC9 0.084 0.208 0.343 0.006
 FAC10 0.342 0.292 0.136 0.014

h2 = heritability estimate (i.e., proportion of phenotype variation attributable to genetics)

h2 SE = standard error of the heritability estimate

R2 = proportion of phenotype variation attributable to the cumulative effects of age, age2, and sex