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26801654
TITLE
Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy is Highly Heritable.
ABSTRACT
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) affects about 70 % of all expectant mothers and commonly impacts their physical health and psychosocial functioning. The aim of this study was to estimate the heritability of the presence, duration and severity of NVP. The sample consisted of 1723 women (M age = 41.78, SD = 11.67) including twins in both complete and incomplete pairs and their sisters from two cohorts participating in the NVP Genetics Consortium. The sample comprised 159 monozygotic and 140 dizygotic complete twin pairs, and 69 twin-sister pairs. We applied an extended twin design using OpenMx and Mx for secondary analysis. Individual differences in NVP were best explained by additive genetic and unique environmental effects. Heritability estimates were 73 % (95 % CIs = 57-84 %) for presence, 51 % (95 % CIs = 36-63 %) for duration and 53 % (95 % CIs = 38-65 %) for severity of NVP. The genetic correlation between duration and severity was almost perfect. Our results show that genes play an important role in different aspects of NVP and justify the importance of searching for genetic variants.
DATE PUBLISHED
2016 07
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2015/09/29
accepted 2016/01/05
entrez 2016/01/24 06:00
pubmed 2016/01/24 06:00
medline 2017/05/17 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Colodro-Conde L Colodro-Conde Lucía L Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology, University of Murcia and IMIB Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain. lucia.colodroconde@qimrberghofer.edu.au.
Jern P Jern Patrick P Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Johansson A Johansson Ada A Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Sánchez-Romera JF Sánchez-Romera Juan F JF Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Murcia and IMIB Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.
Lind PA Lind Penelope A PA Quantitative Genetics Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Painter JN Painter Jodie N JN Quantitative Genetics Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
Ordoñana JR Ordoñana Juan R JR Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology, University of Murcia and IMIB Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE Quantitative Genetics Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 46
ISSUE: 4
TITLE: Behavior genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Behav Genet
YEAR: 2016
MONTH: 07
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1573-3297
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Behav Genet
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0001-8244
NLMUNIQUEID: 0251711
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
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GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
KEYWORD
Heritability
Morning sickness
NVP Genetics Consortium
Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Twin study
Women’s health
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Aged
Cohort Studies
Confidence Intervals
Demography
Female
Finland
Humans
Inheritance Patterns genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Nausea genetics
Phenotype genetics
Pregnancy genetics
Spain genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
Vomiting genetics
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GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's