Heritability of stature in a West African population
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Human Genetics
- Vol. 42 (1), 15-24
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1978.tb00928.x
Abstract
Heritability of stature in a West African population is calculated from longitudinal data collected over 26 yr. Statistical and analytical difficulties encountered include those due to variation in stature with age, sex, recording and measuring, variation in number of offspring, variation in number of spouses and heterogeneity of within-sibship variances. The structure of the population allows a half-sib analysis which is particularly useful in interpretation of the intrafamilial correlations and regressions. The heritability estimate of 0.6 appears lower than that from studies in European populations. The environmental contribution to the stature variance is pronounced, but is not unexpected in the light of the rigors of the traditional way of life in West African surroundings.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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