Table 4.

Statistically significant genetic (ρ_G, upper right triangle) and environmental (ρ_E, bottom left triangle) correlations from bivariate analysis among diabetes related quantitative phenotypes

	Height	Weight	BMI	Waist	Hip	BPS	BPD	Chol	TGL	LDL	HDL	FBS	HbA1c	Insulin
Height		0.43
Weight			0.85	0.84	0.92									0.67
BMI		0.96		0.94*	0.93			−0.32						0.68
Waist		0.85	0.79		0.85	0.24	0.48							0.80*
Hip	0.34	0.86	0.78	0.76		0.33		−0.35			0.46			0.62
BPS		0.31	0.34				0.82					0.58	0.5
BPD		0.47	0.53		0.53	0.66								0.42
Chol		0.5	0.5	0.43	0.35	0.2	0.33			0.76	−0.4
TGL		0.36	0.33	0.29		0.2	0.29	0.73				0.3
LDL			0.29					0.45
HDL		−0.33	−0.32	−0.3	−0.28	−0.25		−0.72	−0.4
FBS													0.85
HbA1c				0.2				0.24	0.31			0.89
Insulin		0.23	0.22			0.2	0.2	0.28	0.26		−0.41

^*significant evidence for complete pleiotroy, i.e evidence that ρ_G is not significantly different from 1