Article
Age trends in transmissible and non-transmissible components of family resemblance for stature.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Byard P J, Siervogel R M, Roche A F
Abstract excerpt
Yearly measurements of recumbent length and stature on participants in the Fels Longitudinal Study of Growth and their first-degree relatives were submitted to path analysis. Using a model consistent with simple polygenic inheritance, two parameters were estimated at each age: t2 or transmissibility, and s, or non-transmissible sibling resemblance. Transmissibility showed no long-term age trends, whereas...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Age Factors
- Biometry
- Body Height
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Environment
- Family
- Female
- Growth
- Humans
- Infant
- Longitudinal Studies