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. 2021 Feb 16;12:1050. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21283-4

Table 2.

Traits with moderate-high heritability (h^SNP2>0.1) and total number of records >400 K with estimates for the variance captured by common SNPs (h^SNP2 with standard error s.e.) from unrelated pairs (π<0.02; where π is the genomic relationship), the heritability from close relatives (π>0.05; either h^π>0.052 or h^EQ2), the observed full-sib phenotypic correlation (r^FS), and its partitioning into common environment (c^FS2) and additive genetic effects (heritability, h^FS2).

Unrelated pairs (π<0.02) Close relative pairs (π>0.05) Full-sib pairs (πIBD~0.50)
Trait N.records N.pair h^SNP2 s.e. N.pair h^π>0.052 s.e. N.pair r^FS c^FS2 s.e. h^FS2 s.e.
(×109) (h^EQ2)a
height 416,131 86.6 0.538 0.004 156,335 0.819 0.035 19,954 0.528 0.231 0.059 0.597 0.116
metRate 409,465 83.8 0.306 0.003 151,279 0.623 0.027 19,368 0.329 0.034 0.080 0.596 0.160
pcc 404,144 81.7 0.299 0.003 147,399 0.541 0.031 18,821 0.288 0.299 0.084 −0.023 0.168
wbcc 404,211 81.7 0.266 0.005 147,386 0.297 0.021 18,816 0.205 0.134 0.089 0.140 0.178
sit:stand 414,868 86.0 0.254 0.003 155,416 0.430 0.028 19,841 0.244 0.156 0.086 0.177 0.173
rbcc 404,317 81.7 0.249 0.003 147,527 0.490 0.026 18,841 0.246 0.172 0.087 0.148 0.174
BMI 415,308 86.2 0.239 0.003 155,692 0.497 0.026 19,885 0.270 −0.132 0.084 0.807 0.167
ecc 402,539 81.0 0.231 0.004 146,276 0.255 0.022 18,682 0.175 −0.096 0.092 0.543 0.184
bodyFat 409,550 83.9 0.223 0.002 151,376 0.518 0.026 19,374 0.273 0.067 0.085 0.413 0.169
skinTan 408,456 83.4 0.199 0.002 150,381 0.392 0.029 19,188 0.209 0.059 0.089 0.295 0.178
skinColour 411,315 84.6 0.187 0.002 152,413 0.358 0.027 19,480 0.192 −0.066 0.088 0.518 0.176
W:H 416,167 86.6 0.165 0.002 156,364 0.370 0.023 19,958 0.197 −0.096 0.088 0.588 0.175
handGrip 416,124 86.6 0.144 0.002 156,279 0.350 0.027 19,957 0.182 0.114 0.089 0.137 0.178
EA 413,496 85.5 0.133 0.002 153,925 0.421 0.043 19,736 0.295 0.222 0.083 0.144 0.165

The number of pairs (N.pair) contributing to each estimate is shown.

Traits include height, metabolic rate (metRate), platelet cell count (pcc), white blood cell count (wbcc), ratio of sitting to standing height (sit:stand), red blood cell count (rbcc), body mass index (BMI), eosinophil cell count (ecc), body fat percentage (bodyFat), skin tanning (skinTan), skin colour (skinColour), waist-to-hip ratio (W:H), hand grip strength (handGrip) and educational attainment (EA). Further trait details are given in Supplementary Table 1.

ah^π>0.052 presented for most traits. For traits with significant assortative mating (height and EA); the value is the equilibrium heritability (h^EQ2).