. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 8.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Apr 30;17(8):1581–1587. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.125

Table 2.

Heritability Estimates for MS Components in 1617 Female Twin Pairs.

Variables	Intraclass correlations^*		Parameter Estimates^¶

	MZ	DZ	h² (95%CI)	c² (95%CI)	e² (95%CI)
WC, cm	0.68	0.37	0.64(0.49~0.71)	0.05(0.00~0.18)	0.32(0.29~0.35)
SBP, mmHg	0.64	0.43	0.42(0.29~0.56)	0.25(0.12~0.37)	0.33(0.30~0.36)
DBP, mmHg	0.55	0.36	0.40(0.25~0.55)	0.19(0.05~0.32)	0.41(0.38~0.45)
FPG, mM	0.56	0.45	0.22(0.08~0.37)	0.35(0.20~0.47)	0.44(0.40~0.48)
TG, mM	0.60	0.32	0.50(0.34~0.62)	0.09(0.00~0.25)	0.41(0.38~0.45)
HDL-C, mM	0.85	0.68	0.22(0.15~0.30)	0.62(0.58~0.62)	0.16(0.16~0.18)

Age-adjusted pearson partial correlation analysis was used to calculate the intraclass correlations within twin pairs, TG and HDL-C were transformed by natural logarithm. All correlations were statistical significantly (p<0.001).

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ACE models were used for all the h² parameter estimates