Table 7.

Association between the children and their parents for physical activity measured by accelerometry, RMR, anthropometry, and residual of body fat-free mass and fat mass measured with DXA and deuterium dilution corrected for height and FFM, respectively

	Mothers				Fathers				Mid-Parents
	r 2	h 2	p	n	r 2	h 2	p	n	r 2	h 2	p	n
RMR	0	0	0.93	69	4.1	0.1	0.12	61	2.9	0.18	0.2	59
BMI (kg/m2)	8	0.13	0.01	69	3.8	0.1	0.11	82	10.7	0.13	0.007	68
FM (DXA)	12.5	0.16	0.01	55	11.2	0.15	0.02	50	20.3	0.14	0.001	49
FFM (DXA)	10.3	0.16	0.02	55	11.2	0.15	0.02	50	19.1	0.13	0.002	49
FM (Deuterium)	1.4	0.04	0.42	50	14.2	0.11	0.01	43	10.1	0.06	0.06	37
FFM (Deuterium)	10.5	0.17	0.02	50	0.9	0.04	0.54	43	6	0.06	0.14	37
Trunk-FM	0.1	0.02	0.857	50	0	0.02	0.897	48	0	0.01	0.92	45
Abdomen-FM	1	0	0.498	50	0.1	0	0.82	48	0.1	0	0.88	45
Arms-FM	3.2	0.07	0.212	50	5.3	0.18	0.121	48	5.3	0.08	0.13	45
Legs-FM	0.5	0.01	0.634	51	6.3	0.07	0.081	49	3.9	0.03	0.19	46
Trunk -FFM	0.5	0.06	0.493	54	1.5	0.08	0.401	49	6.5	0.11	0.08	48
Abdomen-FFM	11.1	0.3	0.014	54	1	1.2	0.485	49	9.8	0.17	0.03	48
Arms-FFM	3.3	0.12	0.192	54	7.7	0.14	0.054	48	11.7	0.12	0.017	48
Legs-FFM	0.2	0.03	0.776	54	0.6	0.03	0.593	49	1	0.03	0.50	48
7 days PA	0.1	0.52	0.734	69	2.1	0.44	0.234	82	1.3	0.26	0.362	68
Weekend PA	0.8	0.25	0.423	69	2.7	0.43	0.180	80	0.7	0.17	0.49	66
Weekdays PA	0	0.05	0.877	69	0.6	0.24	0.521	82	0.7	0.2	0.51	68
Morning PA	13.4	0.8	0.001	69	0.1	0.01	0.812	82	10	0.62	0.009	67
Afternoon PA	2.2	0.62	0.181	69	0.4	0.2	0.630	82	1.5	0.35	0.33	67
Evening PA	0.1	0.08	0.831	69	0.4	0.18	0.624	82	0	0.03	0.9	68
Night PA	1.3	0	0.304	69	0.4	0	0.584	82	4.9	0	0.07	69

r² = squared correlation, h²= heredity, p= P value, sd= standard deviation, RMR was corrected for FFM and FM before analysing for familial resemblance.