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15193170
TITLE
Genetic covariation of pelvic organ and elbow mobility in twins and their sisters.
ABSTRACT
A range of environmental risk factors, with childbirth the most notable, have been associated with the development of pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. However, indications of genetic influence (positive family histories, ethnic differences) have prompted research into the heritability of measures of pelvic organ descent and joint mobility, which have also been associated with prolapse and incontinence. Genes appear to influence about half of the variation in these measures and, furthermore, the pelvic organ measures are associated with elbow hyperextension at a phenotypic level (r approximately .2). We examined these measures in young, nulligravid women to determine if their association is due to a common genetic source. Data were collected from 178 Caucasian female co-twins and non-twin sisters, 50 of whom returned to be retested, which allowed reliability to be estimated and unreliable variance to be isolated in the multivariate analyses. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate genetic associations between latent elbow and bladder mobility factors for which heritabilities were estimated to be 0.80 and 0.64 respectively. The association between these factors appeared to be mediated by common genes (genetic r = .48, non-shared environmental r = -.06), with genes influencing latent elbow mobility accounting for 14% of the variation in latent bladder mobility. We speculate that genes influencing connective tissue structure may underlie this association.
DATE PUBLISHED
2004 Jun
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2004/06/15 05:00
medline 2005/01/06 09:00
entrez 2004/06/15 05:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Hansell NK Hansell Narelle K NK Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia. narelleH@qimr.edu.au
Dietz HP Dietz Hans Peter HP
Treloar SA Treloar Susan A SA
Clarke B Clarke Barton B
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
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JOURNAL
VOLUME: 7
ISSUE: 3
TITLE: Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res
YEAR: 2004
MONTH: Jun
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1369-0523
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res
COUNTRY: Australia
ISSNLINKING: 1369-0523
NLMUNIQUEID: 9815819
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
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GENERAL NOTE
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MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Elbow Joint physiology
Family Health physiology
Female physiology
Genetic Variation physiology
Genotype physiology
Humans physiology
Linear Models physiology
Multivariate Analysis physiology
Phenotype physiology
Siblings physiology
Twins physiology
Twins, Dizygotic physiology
Twins, Monozygotic physiology
Urinary Bladder physiology
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