GENETIC VARIANCE OF BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS IN INFANT TWINS

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A cohort of 166 twin pairs (67 monozygotic and 99 dizygotic) born at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center between July 1, 1976 and December 31, 1980, was followed from birth to one year of age in order to estimate the genetic variance of blood pressure during the first year of life. The sex-adjusted summary estimate of heritabllity for systolic blood pressure during all of infancy was 0.22 (p < 0.001), but statistically significant genetic variance was not found for disatolic blood pressure. When using blood pressures from six to 12 months of age, adjusted for infant sex, heritabllity was estimated as 0.33 (p p = 0.04) for diastolic blood pressure; adjustment for body weight reduced these estimates to 0.27 (p < 0.001) and 0.17 (p = 0.13), respectively.

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