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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2017 Apr;10(2):e001621. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.116.001621

Table 2.

Estimated Heritability for Metabolic Syndrome Severity Score and ATP-III Metabolic Syndrome for all Cohorts

Cohort Metabolic Syndrome Score
ATP-III MetS
h2±SE P Value Phenotypic varianceŦ h2±SE P Value
JHS 0.52 (0.05) < 0.001 0.09 0.48 (0.10) < 0.001
PLRS-Blacks 0.64 (0.26) 0.005 0.21 0.93 (0.10) 0.001
PLRS-Whites 0.60 (0.14) < 0.001 0.00 0.27 (0.16) 0.085
TOPS 0.23 (0.04) < 0.001 0.28 0.21 (0.20) < 0.001

h2: Heritability estimate; SE: Standard Error of the estimate; JHS: Jackson Heart Study; PLRS: Princeton Lipid Research Study; TOPS: Take Off Pounds Sensibly

Ŧ

Proportion of phenotypic variance explained by significant covariates