Table 1.

Main results of different studies analyzing the heritability of several phenotypes associated with arteriosclerosis

Phenotype	Heritability	References
CAD
Acute myocardial infarction	0.56	Nora et al89
Mortality from	0.53–0.57 (men)	Zdravkovic et al,90
CAD	0.58 (women)	Wienke et al91
Coronary artery calcification	0.42	Peyser et al92
Atherosclerosis
Carotid artery atherosclerosis	0.21–0.64	Xiang et al,93 Fox et al,94 Swan et al,95 North et al,96 Hunt et al97

Abbreviation: CAD, coronary artery disease.