Familial resemblance for body composition measures: The Heritage family study

Agriculture & Biology

• family studies 97%
• body composition 74%
• spouses 41%
• lipids 39%
• adiposity 18%
• gender 17%
• subcutaneous fat 17%
• fathers 16%
• body fat 15%
• genetic factors 14%
• phenotypic variation 14%
• exercise 13%
• heritability 12%
• environmental factors 9%
• sampling 5%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Body Weights and Measures 100%
• Body Composition 71%
• Fats 54%
• Spouses 29%
• Subcutaneous Fat 16%
• Adiposity 15%
• Fathers 14%
• European Continental Ancestry Group 13%
• Siblings 13%
• Adipose Tissue 12%
• Exercise 9%
• Mothers 9%

Social Sciences

• spouse 26%
• heredity 17%
• endurance 17%
• indexing 15%
• aggregation 15%
• environmental factors 13%
• segregation 13%
• father 11%
• determinants 10%
• interaction 6%