Determinants of plasma uric acid
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 50 (3), 307-312
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00399397
Abstract
Obesity, alcohol consumption, and hematocrit provide an index of plasma uric acid, which in path analysis has a cultural heritability of 0.11 in children and 0.23 in parents, a small maternal effect, and a genetic heritability of 0.25 in both generations. Preliminary evidence for a major locus is destroyed by the omission of one exceptional child. There is no evidence against the polygenic hypothesis for hyperuricemia in the Japanese-American population studied.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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