Genetic Epidemiology, Translational Neurogenomics, Psychiatric Genetics and Statistical Genetics Laboratories investigate the pattern of disease in families, particularly identical and non-identical twins, to assess the relative importance of genes and environment in a variety of important health problems.
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7197465
TITLE
Directional dominance for low IgM and IgA levels.
ABSTRACT
A biometrical genetical analysis of IgG, IgM, and IgA levels in 134 sets of twins is reported. High heritabilities, around .8, are found for all three immunoglobulin levels, and possible reasons for lower heritabilities found in family studies are discussed. There is evidence for genetical dominance tending to decrease IgM and IgA levels, but there is no evidence for the importance of family environment although the presence of dominance may make its detection difficult. The causes of covariation in the three measurements are unclear in males but in females appear to be mainly environmental in correlations with IgA and equally genetical and environmental in the IgG-IgM correlation.
DATE PUBLISHED
1981 Sep
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1981/09/01
medline 1981/09/01 00:01
entrez 1981/09/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Clark P Clark P P
Jardine R Jardine R R
Jones P Jones P P
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Walsh RJ Walsh R J RJ
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 33
ISSUE: 5
TITLE: American journal of human genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Am. J. Hum. Genet.
YEAR: 1981
MONTH: Sep
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0002-9297
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Am J Hum Genet
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0002-9297
NLMUNIQUEID: 0370475
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
REFTYPE REFSOURCE REFPMID NOTE
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GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Female
Genes, Dominant
Humans
Immunoglobulin A genetics
Immunoglobulin G genetics
Immunoglobulin M genetics
Male genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Models, Genetic genetics
Pregnancy genetics
Sex Factors genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Immunoglobulin A
0 Immunoglobulin G
0 Immunoglobulin M
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
PMC1685124 NLM