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TITLE
Lung function in an Australian population: contributions of polygenic factors and the Pi locus to individual differences in lung function in a sample of twins.
ABSTRACT
A study of lung function in 203 twin pairs aged 18-34 years living in Sydney detected significant genetic variation in females and males. There was no evidence of family environmental effects in either sex and most of the repeatable variation in females was heritable. However, there was evidence for systematic environmental differences between males affecting lung function so that the heritability was lower in males (about 0.6) than females (about 0.8). An effect of smoking on lung function was detected but accounted for less than 3% of the variance. Lung function in females was greater in the M subtype heterozygotes at the Pi locus than in the M subtype homozygotes or in other Pi phenotypes with low alpha 1-antitrypsin activity. The Pi polymorphism accounted for approximately 9% of the total variance in female lung function. No effect of the Pi locus was found in males.
DATE PUBLISHED
1983 Nov-Dec
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1983/11/01
medline 1983/11/01 00:01
entrez 1983/11/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Gibson JB Gibson J B JB
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Oakeshott JG Oakeshott J G JG
Rowell DM Rowell D M DM
Clark P Clark P P
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 10
ISSUE: 6
TITLE: Annals of human biology
ISOABBREVIATION: Ann. Hum. Biol.
YEAR:
MONTH:
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE: 1983 Nov-Dec
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0301-4460
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Ann Hum Biol
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0301-4460
NLMUNIQUEID: 0404024
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Aging
Australia
Body Height
Female
Genetics
Humans
Lung physiology
Male physiology
Phenotype physiology
Pregnancy physiology
Smoking physiology
Twins physiology
Twins, Dizygotic physiology
Twins, Monozygotic physiology
alpha 1-Antitrypsin physiology
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 alpha 1-Antitrypsin
OTHER ID's