Table 2.

Parameter estimates from models of adult relative telomere length in relation to a) individual (I) homozygosity and b) maternal (M) and paternal (P) homozygosity

Homozygosity	Model	Parameter	Estimate ± SE	P value
a) Individual n = 568	Minimal	Lifetime food availability	0.03 ± <0.01	<0.01
		Age	−0.03 ±  <0.01	<0.01
		Sex (male)	0.08 ± 0.03	<0.01
	Final	Lifetime food availability	0.03 ±  <0.01	<0.01
		Age	−0.03 ±  <0.01	<0.01
		Sex (male)	0.08 ± 0.03	<0.01
		Homozygosity (I)	−0.14 ± 0.07	0.04
		Lifetime food availability*Homozygosity (I)	−0.01 ± 0.02	0.50
		Age*Homozygosity (I)	0.01 ± 0.02	0.61
		Sex*Homozygosity (I)	0.01 ± 0.13	0.93
b) Parental n = 182	Minimal	Lifetime food availability	0.02 ± <0.01	<0.01
		Homozygosity (I)	−0.36 ± 0.12	<0.01
		Age	−0.03 ± 0.01	0.02
		Sex (males)	0.10 ± 0.05	0.05
	Final	Lifetime food availability	0.01 ±  <0.01	0.01
		Homozygosity (I)	−0.26 ± 0.12	0.03
		Homozygosity (M)	−0.32 ± 0.10	<0.01
		Age	−0.03 ± 0.01	<0.01
		Sex (male)	0.10 ± 0.05	0.03
		Homozygosity (P)	0.16 ± 0.11	0.17
		Food availability at birth	<0.01 ± 0.01	0.89
		Homozygosity (P)*Food availability at birth	0.05 ± 0.03	0.12
		Homozygosity (M)*Food availability at birth	0.02 ± 0.02	0.51

Significant terms in the final models are in bold.