Table 1.
MTMM estimates of correlation and heritability in the NFBC 1966 data
| Genetic | Environmental | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phenotypicα | corr. | SE | pval | corr. | SE | pval | Heritabilityβ | |
| HDL/TG | -0.37 | -0.42 | 0.14 | 0.024 | -0.36 | 0.06 | 1:58 × 10-8 | 0.38/0.18 |
| HDL/LDL | -0.13 | -0.19 | 0.11 | 0.085 | -0.09 | 0.08 | 0.26 | 0.39/0.45 |
| HDL/CRP | -0.19 | 0.24 | 0.23 | 0.25 | -0.34 | 0.06 | 1:50 × 10-7 | 0.39/0.14 |
| TG/LDL | 0.32 | 0.31 | 0.14 | 0.062 | 0.35 | 0.06 | 9:64 × 10-7 | 0.19/0.44 |
| TG/CRP | 0.21 | -0.50 | 0.39 | 0.115 | 0.34 | 0.05 | 3:19 × 10-9 | 0.18/0.13 |
| LDL/CRP | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.19 | 0.65 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.45/0.13 |
α
Direct estimates of the Pearson correlation are identical to the precision given.
β
The SE of all heritability estimates is between 0.05 and 0.06. Single-trait estimates are: 0.38 (HDL), 0.18 (TG), 0.45 (LDL) and 0.13 (CRP).