These findings suggest that genetic and/or shared familial environment explain family clustering of adiposity.
The magnitude of the associations between maternal-offspring adiposity and paternal-offspring adiposity were similar and we found no evidence for gender assortment, suggesting that genetic and/or shared familial environment explain this family clustering.
In family-based heritability estimations, the shared familial environment may contribute significantly to the estimate of heritability.
The total variance in the trait can be partitioned into genetic variance (A), shared environmental variance [including shared (familial) environmental variance, C] and non-shared (unique environmental) variance (E), which also include measurement error.
We propose that future studies examining shared familial etiological factors for ADHD and ASD use a family-based design in which the same phenotypic (ADHD and ASD), candidate endophenotypic, and environmental measurements are obtained from all family members.
Twin and family studies are commonly used to investigate the extent to which shared familial factors, including genetics, contribute to the variation of a phenotype.
There are shared familial experiences, of course, in being connected to black relatives or raising black children, as Dolezal seems to have done.
They gathered around their television and cheered on their team, the Jets, in an act of shared familial devotion — to sport, franchise and the standard network broadcast.
The superb members of this cast, all of whom appeared in the two previous Apple plays, are so linked into one another that you too seem to be tuned into their thought waves, to their shared familial rhythm.
The remaining individual differences in neuroticism are attributed primarily to unique (nonfamilial) environmental differences; the shared familial environment appears to exert virtually no reliable influence on individual differences in neuroticism.
Shared familial factors, including genetics, are likely to be a significant contributor to the response of body composition and cardiorespiratory fitness following PA.
