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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2016 Jul 18;48(9):980–983. doi: 10.1038/ng.3618

Table 3. Heritability estimates of disease using common + rare SNPs and structural equation modelling (SEM) from self-reported data.

Disease h2C+R (CI95%) h2SEM (CI95%) %(h2 C+R /h2SEM) (SE)
Heart Disease 0.11 (0.08-0.15) 0.27 (0.24-0.27) 40.74 (9.79)
Stroke 0.09 (0.00-0.17) 0.23 (0.21-0.25) 39.13 (29.07)
Bronchitis 0.16 (0.10-0.22) 0.29 (0.25-0.33) 54.43 (15.72)
Hypertension 0.32 (0.30-0.34) 0.28 (0.28-0.29) 114.29 (3.29)
Diabetes 0.35 (0.30-0.39) 0.50 (0.49-0.52) 70.00 (5.23)
Depression 0.07 (0.03-0.10) 0.25 (0.23-0.27) 24.00 (13.79)
Bowel cancer 0.12 (0.00-0.28) 0.24 (0.21-0.26) 50.0 (49.75)
Prostate cancer 0.23 (0.06-0.40) 0.38 (0.32-0.44) 60.53 (30.42)
Breast cancer 0.18 (0.10-0.26) 0.29 (0.26-0.33) 62.07 (19.05)

h2C+R: Heritability estimates using SNPs in the liability scale; (CI95%): Confidence intervals; %(h2C+R /h2SEM): Percentage of SEM family-based estimate of heritability explained by SNPs. (SE): Standard error