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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2009 Jan 25;136(5):1585–1592. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.01.050

Table 2.

Heritability Estimates

Unadjusted Adjusted
Trait h2 SE P value h2 SE P value
Fatty Liver 0.850 0.325 < 0.0001 1.000 N/A <0.0001
Liver Fat Fraction 0.581 0.141 < 0.0001 0.386 0.181 0.013
Obesity 0.716 0.194 <0.001 0.718 0.201 <0.001
Body mass index 0.602 0.140 <0.0001 0.706 0.143 <0.0001
Diabetes 0.00 n/a 0.500 0.483 0.588 0.211
Glucose 0.00 n/a 0.500 0.150 0.186 0.191
Triglycerides 0.272 0.160 0.034 0.275 0.175 0.047

Adjusted estimates are adjusted for age, sex, race, ethnicity, and body mass index.

h2 = narrow sense heritability. SE = standard error.