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D C Rao

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ID91325
NAMED C Rao
GIVEN NAMESD C
FAMILY NAMERao
SIGNATURERAO D C
AFFILIATIONSWashington University in St. Louis
ORCID0009-0006-1075-3470
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS61
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4
  • The Health Care Cost of Air Pollution

    Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li et al.•ARTICLE•The Review of Economics and…•2026

    This paper exploits the universe of credit- and debit-card transactions in China during 2013–2015 and provides the first nationwide analysis of the health care cost of PM2.5 for a developing country. We leverage spatial spillovers of PM2.5 from long-range transport to generate exogenous variation in local pollution, and we employ a flexible distributed lag model to capture semiparametrically the dynamic response of pollution exposure. We find sig…

  • Comparing Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia and Caregiver Distress Caused Between Older Adults With Dementia Living in the Community and in Nursing Homes

    Open Access•Xuejiao Lu, Rui Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2022

    Tailored management strategies to relieve family caregivers' BPSD-induced distress are needed, especially at the stage of moderate-to-severe dementia. An effective service system should be established for supporting family caregivers to cope with BPSD

  • Development and Evaluation of Two Abbreviated Questionnaires for Mentoring and Research Self-Efficacy

    Donna B Jeffe, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicity & Disease•2017

    The RMMRI-9 and CRAI-19 retained the excellent psychometric properties of the longer measures. Findings support use of the shortened measures in future evaluations of PRIDE

  • Mentored Training to Increase Diversity among Faculty in the Biomedical Sciences

    Treva Rice, Donna B Jeffe et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicity & Disease•2017

    Mentees reported their career development benefited from SIPID and PRIDE participation

  • A Perspective on Promoting Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce

    Josephine Boyington, Josephine E A Boyington et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicity & Disease•2016

    Aspiring junior investigators from groups underrepresented in the biomedical sciences face various challenges as they pursue research independence. However, the biomedical research enterprise needs their participation to effectively address critical research issues such as health disparities and health inequities. In this article, we share a research education and mentoring initiative that seeks to address this challenge: Programs to Increase Div…

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Open Access•The Lifelines Cohort Study, Adam E Locke et al.•ARTICLE•Nature•2015

  • Measured maximal heart rates compared to commonly used age‐based prediction equations in the heritage family study

    Open Access•Mark A Sarzynski, Tuomo Rankinen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2013

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine how well two commonly used age-based prediction equations for maximal heart rate (HRmax ) estimate the actual HRmax measured in Black and White adults from the HERITAGE Family Study. METHODS: A total of 762 sedentary subjects (39% Black, 57% Females) from HERITAGE were included. HRmax was measured during maximal exercise tests using cycle ergometers. Age-based HRmax was predicted using the Fox (…

  • Pleiotropic QTL on Chromosome 12q23-q24 Influences Triglyceride and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels

    Mary F Feitosa, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•Human Biology•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    To determine whether a common quantitative trait locus (QTL) influences the variation of fasting triglyceride (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, we used a bivariate multipoint linkage analysis with 654 polymorphic markers in 99 white and 101 black families. The phenotypes were investigated under two conditions: at baseline and after a 20-week exercise training intervention. A maximum genome-wide bivariate LOD score of 3…

  • Prediction of physical activity and physical work capacity (PWC150) in young adulthood from childhood and adolescence with consideration of parental measures

    Open Access•Peter T Campbell, P T Katzmarzyk et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2001

    The 12-year prediction of physical activity level and submaximal aerobic fitness observed during young adulthood was quantified from childhood and parental measures. The sample consisted of 153 children and adolescents of the Quebec Family Study who were evaluated at baseline and reassessed 12 years later, as young adults. Physical work capacity at a heart rate of 150 beats x min(-1) (PWC150) was measured using cycle ergometry. A 3-day activity r…

  • Familial risk of high blood pressure in the Canadian population

    P T Katzmarzyk, Tuomo Rankinen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2001

    Familial risk ratios for high blood pressure were estimated in a representative sample of the Canadian population. The sample consisted of 14,069 participants 7–69 years of age from 5,753 families participating in the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey. Resting systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures were adjusted for the effects of body mass index using regression procedures. Varying degrees of high blood pressure were defined as the 75th, 85…

  • Familial risk of high blood pressure in the Canadian population

    Open Access•P T Katzmarzyk, Tuomo Rankinen et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2001

    Familial risk ratios for high blood pressure were estimated in a representative sample of the Canadian population. The sample consisted of 14,069 participants 7–69 years of age from 5,753 families participating in the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey. Resting systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures were adjusted for the effects of body mass index using regression procedures. Varying degrees of high blood pressure were defined as the 75 th , …

  • Population differences in the pattern of familial aggregation for sex hormone‐binding globulin and its response to exercise training

    Open Access•Ping An, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2001

    Familial influences were investigated for baseline sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and its response (post-training minus baseline) to a 20-week endurance exercise training program. One hundred, eighty-four participants from 85 Black families in the HERITAGE Family Study (HERITAGE) were analyzed using a familial correlation model. Baseline SHBG values and the training response were adjusted for the effects of age, baseline BMI, testosterone, e…

  • Familial resemblance in fatness and fat distribution

    Open Access•P T Katzmarzyk, Robert M Malina et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2000

    The purpose of the study was to estimate the degree of familial resemblance in anthropometric indicators of fatness and fat distribution. The sample consisted of 327 Caucasian participants from 102 nuclear families. Indicators of fatness included the body mass index (BMI), the sum of six skinfolds (SF6: triceps + biceps + medial calf + subscapular + suprailiac + abdominal), and waist circumference (WAIST), while indicators of fat distribution inc…

  • Cross-trait familial resemblance for resting blood pressure and body composition and fat distribution

    Open Access•Ping An, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2000

    Cross-trait familial resemblance between resting blood pressure (BP) and body composition and fat distribution was examined in 98 Caucasian families participating in the HERITAGE Family Study by using a multivariate familial correlation model assessing both intraindividual and interindividual cross-trait correlations. The 520 family members were sedentary at baseline examination, and both resting systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) BP were cross-a…

  • Cross‐trait familial resemblance for resting blood pressure and body composition and fat distribution

    Open Access•Ping An, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2000

  • Major gene effect on subcutaneous fat distribution in a sedentary population and its response to exercise training

    Open Access•Ping An, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2000

    Complex segregation analysis of baseline subcutaneous fat distribution and the change in response to exercise training (post-training minus baseline indices) was performed in a sample of 482 individuals from 99 Caucasian families who participated in the HERITAGE Family Study. The sum of skinfold (SF) thicknesses at eight sites, and the waist and hip circumferences were measured at baseline and after completing a 20-week exercise training program.…

  • Familial Resemblance for Hostility

    Gerdi Weidner, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2000

    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine whether several aspects of hostility as measured by the Cook-Medley Hostility Scale (ie, aggressive responding, hostile affect, cynicism, and overall hostility score) were determined in part by family factors (ie, genes and/or familial environments). METHODS: Analyses were based on 680 European-American families (2525 individuals) from the NHLBI Family Heart Study (FHS), a population-based study…

  • Major gene effect on subcutaneous fat distribution in a sedentary population and its response to exercise training

    Open Access•Ping An, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•2000

    Complex segregation analysis of baseline subcutaneous fat distribution and the change in response to exercise training (post-training minus baseline indices) was performed in a sample of 482 individuals from 99 Caucasian families who participated in the HERITAGE Family Study. The sum of skinfold (SF) thicknesses at eight sites, and the waist and hip circumferences were measured at baseline and after completing a 20-week exercise training program.…

  • Relation of Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity to Left Ventricular Mass and Relative Wall Thickness in Hypertensives

    Mustafa Al’Absi, R Devereux et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•1999

    s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Cardiovascular Activity in Relation to Stress Psychology and Neurobiology

  • Race differences in reproducibilities

    Open Access•Habib E El-Moalem, Habib El-Moalem et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1997

    The HERITAGE (HEalth, RIsk factors, exercise Training And GEnetics) Family Study is a multicenter clinical trial conducted by five institutions in the United States and Canada. The overall objective of the study is to investigate the role of the genotype in cardiovascular, metabolic, and hormonal responses to aerobic exercise training and the contribution of regular exercise to changes in cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors in white …

  • Principal components analysis of morphological measures in the Québec family study

    Open Access•C Charles Gu, Chi Gu et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1997

    Principal components analysis was carried out on 13 morphological dimensions collected in the first phase of the Québec Family Study (weight, height, fat mass (FM), fat-free mass (FFM), body surface area, six skinfolds, arm and calf girths). The first four principal components (PCs) account for 85.9% of the total phenotypic variance in the anthropometric dimensions. The first PC has almost equal loadings on the 13 variables, indicating its role a…

  • Familial aggregation of subcutaneous fat patterning

    Open Access•Zhaohai Li, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1996

    Familial resemblance was examined for each of the principal components arising from an analysis of six skinfolds (triceps, biceps, subscapular, abdominal, suprailiac, and medial calf) measured in 1,237 participants of the Québec Family Study. Most of the phenotypic variance among the skinfolds (83%) was accounted for by the first two principal components. Examination of the skinfold loadings on each principal component, as well as intraindividual…

  • Familial aggregation of subcutaneous fat patterning

    Open Access•Zhaohai Li, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1996

  • The impact of energy intake and energy expenditure of activity on the familial transmission of adiposity in an indian population

    Open Access•Laura E Mitchell, A Nirmala et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1993

    The effect of current energy intake and energy expenditure of activity on the familial transmission of five adiposity phenotypes was assessed using data from 473 nuclear families from the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Three measures of fatness, body mass index, the sum of six skinfolds, and the sum of three trunk skinfolds, and two measures of fat patterning, the ratio of trunk to extremity subcutaneous fat and the ratio of the subs…

  • Commingling and segregation analysis of blood pressure in consanguineous and nonconsanguineous families from Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open Access•A Nirmala, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1992

    The hypothesis of a major gene effect for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was examined in families from Andhra Pradesh, India, where consanguinity and marriage within caste are commonly practiced. The data were examined separately by noninbred versus complete (inbred + noninbred) families, both before and after correction for residual skewness. For SBP in the noninbred sample prior to skewness transformation, evid…

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  • A family study of anthropometric traits in a Punjabi community

    Open Access•Pamela J Byard, Kaushal Sharma et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 10•References: 6

    Path analysis is used to characterize family resemblance for anthropometrics in twins and nuclear families from the Punjabi population of India. Significant positive assortative mating exists with respect to many body measurements, but not for cranial or facial variables. Evidence of a maternal effect for five measurements of bone diameter is reported. Twin resemblance is increased by a component not found in other pairs of relatives for all vari…

  • A family study of dermatoglyphic traits in India

    Open Access•Ingrid B Borecki, K C Malhotra et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1985•Cited by: 9•References: 9

    The inheritance of palmar pattern ridge counts for individual palmar areas, combined distal areas, and all ten areas combined was investigated in families belonging to two strictly endogamous Brahmin castes of peninsular India. Ridge count phenotypes were obtained by the method proposed by Malhotra et al. (1981a), however, zero observations (indicating patterns not circumscribed by triradii) were excluded from analysis. Path analytic methods were…

  • A family study of anthropometric traits in a Punjabi community

    Open Access•Kaushal Sharma, Pamela J Byard et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    Data on 40 anthropometric measurements from 144 nuclear families in Chandigarh, India, are presented. Most families contain a pair of monozygotic or dizygotic twins, one or more singleton siblings, and their parents. Familial correlations for age‐sex standardized, normalized measurements are estimated by maximum likelihood for marital, parent‐child, sibling, and twin pairs. Heterogeneity tests for sex‐specific subtype correlations (male‐male, mal…

  • Genetic and environmental determinants of skin color

    Open Access•Peter W Post, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1977•Cited by: 8•References: 1

    Skin reflectance measurements on a sample of 154 Black and 191 White same‐sex twin pairs, attending Philadelphia area schools, are analyzed to determine the effects of genetic and environmental factors. The measurements obtained in July and August, on the forehead, inner upper arm, and flexor surface of the forearm with red, green, and blue filters, were reduced to one index which we call skin color. Analysis of this index using the path analysis…

  • A family study of dermatoglyphic traits in India

    Open Access•Sheila B Gilligan, Ingrid B Borecki et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1985•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Palmar pattern ridge counts were subjected to segregation analysis in an attempt to identify possible major gene effects on these dermatoglyphic traits. The phenotypes considered were total palmar pattern ridge count, and ridge counts for the right interdigital III and IV and left interdigital IV individual palmar areas (sample sizes were too small for the other palmar areas). Evidence of familial resemblance was found for all of the phenotypes s…

  • Path analysis of total palmar pattern ridge counts

    Open Access•K C Malhotra, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1982•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Recently a new dermatoglyphic measure was defined called the Total Palmar Pattern Ridge Count (TPPRC), which is the sum of the ten single counts (Malhotra et al., 1981). Malhotra and associates presented estimates of five familial correlations, including twins, which are analyzed here using the models and methods of path analysis. It is concluded that about one‐third of the variation in the TPPRC is accounted for by additive genetic factors (h 2 …

  • Economic growth and equity in the Republic of Korea

    Open Access•D C Rao•ARTICLE•World Development•1978•Cited by: 4•References: 3

  • Family resemblance for cranio‐facial measurements in Velanti Brahmins from Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open Access•D V R Poosha, Pamela J Byard et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    Maximum likelihood estimates of familial correlations are presented for 12 cranio‐facial measurements taken on 399 nuclear families from Southern India. Marital resemblance is significantly different from zero for head circumference, head breadth, minimum frontal breadth, bizygomatic breadth, total facial height, and nasal height, but not for bigonial breadth, nose breadth, nose depth, or ear dimensions. All other familial correlations are signif…

  • Path analysis of palmar ridge counts

    Open Access•Paul W Sciulli, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1975•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    The methods for path analysis of family resemblance (Rao et al., '74) are employed to test hypotheses concerning the inheritance of a‐b, b‐c and c‐d palmar ridge counts using the correlation data of Pateria ('74). Homogeneity chi‐square tests of the various familial correlations provide no evidence for sex‐linkage of either kind, and also suggest that maternal effects are absent. The path coefficient model employed here involves heritability (add…

  • Pleiotropic QTL on Chromosome 12q23-q24 Influences Triglyceride and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels

    Mary F Feitosa, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•Human Biology•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    To determine whether a common quantitative trait locus (QTL) influences the variation of fasting triglyceride (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels, we used a bivariate multipoint linkage analysis with 654 polymorphic markers in 99 white and 101 black families. The phenotypes were investigated under two conditions: at baseline and after a 20-week exercise training intervention. A maximum genome-wide bivariate LOD score of 3…

  • Familial aggregation of blood pressure and anthropometric variables in patrilocal households

    Open Access•Pamela J Byard, B N Mukherjee et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1989•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Fifty‐three households in a small Indian fishing community were surveyed for blood pressure, pulse rate, and anthropometric measurements (height, weight, and three skinfolds). In addition to nuclear family relationships, correlations for extended family members and in‐laws living within a common household were estimated by maximum likelihood. Based on likelihood ratio tests, the hypothesis that correlations among genetically unrelated pairs from …

  • Genetic epidemiological study of blood pressure in sedentary rural agriculture population of West Bengal, India

    Open Access•Partha P Majumder, Zulfa Zulfa et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1990•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    To study the genetic epidmiology of blood pressure (BP), data on 78 families were collected from a sedentary agriculture population of eastern India. The general levels of both systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures are found to be low (mean SBP = 106.41 mm Hg; means DBP = 63.94 mm Hg). Trends of blood pressures with age are similar to those reported earlier (e.g., in the Framingham study). Environmental variables—e.g., occupation and…

  • Resolution of genetic and uterine environmental effects in a family study of new dermatoglyphic measure

    Open Access•K C Malhotra, M Vijayakumar et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1987•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    The heritability of sole pattern ridge counts was examined in two family studies of endogamous castes from peninsular India. The phenotypes included ridge counts for each of the eight configurational areas separately, all areas combined, and only distal areas combined. Differences in heritability estimates were found between populations as well as among the individual configurational areas. Although some ridge counts do not show familial resembla…

  • Cultural and biological inheritance of plasma lipids

    Open Access•D C Rao, Myriam Katia Amrane et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1983•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    A path analytic model for the analysis of nuclear family data is described and used to analyze the results of two major studies of cholesterol (CH) and triglyceride (TG), the Honolulu Heart Study (HHS) of Japanese–Americans and the Cincinnati Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) study of Caucasians. The studies were first analyzed separately to assess evidence for genetic and cultural transmission, marital resemblance, and maternal environmental effects f…

  • Path analysis of palmar ridge counts

    Open Access•Paul W Sciulli, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1975•Cited by: 3•References: 1

    The methods for path analysis of family resemblance (Rao et al., '74) are employed to test hypotheses concerning the inheritance of a‐b, b‐c and c‐d palmar ridge counts using the correlation data of Pateria ('74). Homogeneity chi‐square tests of the various familial correlations provide no evidence for sex‐linkage of either kind, and also suggest that maternal effects are absent. The path coefficient model employed here involves heritability (add…

  • Genetic and environmental determinants of skin color

    Open Access•Peter W Post, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1977•Cited by: 8•References: 1

    Skin reflectance measurements on a sample of 154 Black and 191 White same‐sex twin pairs, attending Philadelphia area schools, are analyzed to determine the effects of genetic and environmental factors. The measurements obtained in July and August, on the forehead, inner upper arm, and flexor surface of the forearm with red, green, and blue filters, were reduced to one index which we call skin color. Analysis of this index using the path analysis…

  • Economic growth and equity in the Republic of Korea

    Open Access•D C Rao•ARTICLE•World Development•1978•Cited by: 4•References: 3

  • Effect of skin color on self‐esteem

    Peter W Post, D C Rao et al.•ARTICLE•Social Biology•1979

    Coopersmith Self‐esteem Inventory scores, obtained on a sample of 154 black and 190 white same‐sex twin pairs attending Philadelphia area schools, are analyzed to determine the effect of skin color on self‐esteem. Skin color alone, and therefore race which is highly correlated with skin color, has no effect upon self‐esteem

  • Korea

    Hasan Parvez, D C Rao•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•1979

    The growth of Korea's economy consistently satisfied and often surpassed the ambitious targets set by development planners in the 1960s and early 1970s, although the country is not well endowed with natural resources. A firm commitment to development, social homogeneity, strong political leadership, sound policies, and a favorable international environment combined to create a striking success story in economic development. Korea's present rate o…

  • Hereditary genius

    N E Morton, D C Rao•ARTICLE•Social Biology•1980•References: 1

    Galton believed that his data on hereditary genius support purely genetic inheritance. On the contrary, analysis under a simple model shows no clear resolution of genetic and cultural inheritance in this material, or generally, unless adoptive relations, monozygous twins, and/or environmental indices are included in a design adequate to test the assumptions under which they are informative

  • Path analysis of total palmar pattern ridge counts

    Open Access•K C Malhotra, D C Rao•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1982•Cited by: 4•References: 3

    Recently a new dermatoglyphic measure was defined called the Total Palmar Pattern Ridge Count (TPPRC), which is the sum of the ten single counts (Malhotra et al., 1981). Malhotra and associates presented estimates of five familial correlations, including twins, which are analyzed here using the models and methods of path analysis. It is concluded that about one‐third of the variation in the TPPRC is accounted for by additive genetic factors (h 2 …

  • Cultural and biological inheritance of plasma lipids

    Open Access•D C Rao, Myriam Katia Amrane et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1983•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    A path analytic model for the analysis of nuclear family data is described and used to analyze the results of two major studies of cholesterol (CH) and triglyceride (TG), the Honolulu Heart Study (HHS) of Japanese–Americans and the Cincinnati Lipid Research Clinic (LRC) study of Caucasians. The studies were first analyzed separately to assess evidence for genetic and cultural transmission, marital resemblance, and maternal environmental effects f…

  • Race, height, and blood pressure in northeastern Brazil

    C A A Barbosa, N E Morton et al.•ARTICLE•Biodemography and Social Biology•1983•References: 10

    In this admixed population with no significant confounding of race and environment, there is an increase of blood pressure with Negro ancestry. There appears to be a direct effect of race on blood pressure in addition to an indirect effect through height

  • Family resemblance for cranio‐facial measurements in Velanti Brahmins from Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open Access•D V R Poosha, Pamela J Byard et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    Maximum likelihood estimates of familial correlations are presented for 12 cranio‐facial measurements taken on 399 nuclear families from Southern India. Marital resemblance is significantly different from zero for head circumference, head breadth, minimum frontal breadth, bizygomatic breadth, total facial height, and nasal height, but not for bigonial breadth, nose breadth, nose depth, or ear dimensions. All other familial correlations are signif…

  • A family study of anthropometric traits in a Punjabi community

    Open Access•Kaushal Sharma, Pamela J Byard et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 9•References: 8

    Data on 40 anthropometric measurements from 144 nuclear families in Chandigarh, India, are presented. Most families contain a pair of monozygotic or dizygotic twins, one or more singleton siblings, and their parents. Familial correlations for age‐sex standardized, normalized measurements are estimated by maximum likelihood for marital, parent‐child, sibling, and twin pairs. Heterogeneity tests for sex‐specific subtype correlations (male‐male, mal…

  • A family study of anthropometric traits in a Punjabi community

    Open Access•Pamela J Byard, Kaushal Sharma et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1984•Cited by: 10•References: 6

    Path analysis is used to characterize family resemblance for anthropometrics in twins and nuclear families from the Punjabi population of India. Significant positive assortative mating exists with respect to many body measurements, but not for cranial or facial variables. Evidence of a maternal effect for five measurements of bone diameter is reported. Twin resemblance is increased by a component not found in other pairs of relatives for all vari…

  • Path analysis of family resemblance for cranio-facial traits in Andhra Pradesh nuclear families and twins

    Open Access•Pamela J Byard, D V R Poosha et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Human Biology•1985

    Path analysis of 12 cranio-facial measurements from a sample of nuclear families and twins from Andhra Pradesh, India is used to test hypotheses about the familial transmission of these traits. For bigonial breadth and ear dimensions, the transmission from parent to child is consistent with simple autosomal polygenic inheritance, but length, breadth and circumference of the head, facial breadth and nose dimensions show evidence of transmission in…

  • Heritability in the Personality Control System

    Open Access•Raymond B Cattell, D C Rao et al.•ARTICLE•Social Behavior and Personality…•1985

    Ninety-four identical twins, 124 fraternal twins, 470 brothers (reared together) and 2973 unrelated boys, all in the 12–18 age range were measured on three personality scales – namely ego strength. C, super ego strength, G, and self-sentiment strength, Q3 - adding both forms of the High School Personality Questionnaire (HSPQ). Age corrections brought brothers ’scores to equivalence at the same age, and intra-pair and inter family concrete varianc…

  • A family study of dermatoglyphic traits in India

    Open Access•Ingrid B Borecki, K C Malhotra et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1985•Cited by: 9•References: 9

    The inheritance of palmar pattern ridge counts for individual palmar areas, combined distal areas, and all ten areas combined was investigated in families belonging to two strictly endogamous Brahmin castes of peninsular India. Ridge count phenotypes were obtained by the method proposed by Malhotra et al. (1981a), however, zero observations (indicating patterns not circumscribed by triradii) were excluded from analysis. Path analytic methods were…

  • A family study of dermatoglyphic traits in India

    Open Access•Sheila B Gilligan, Ingrid B Borecki et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1985•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Palmar pattern ridge counts were subjected to segregation analysis in an attempt to identify possible major gene effects on these dermatoglyphic traits. The phenotypes considered were total palmar pattern ridge count, and ridge counts for the right interdigital III and IV and left interdigital IV individual palmar areas (sample sizes were too small for the other palmar areas). Evidence of familial resemblance was found for all of the phenotypes s…

  • A family study of dermatoglyphic traits in India

    Open Access•Sheila B Gilligan, Ingrid B Borecki et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1987•References: 9

    Accessory triradii and the atd angle were examined via complex segregation analysis in order to evaluate possible genetic effects on these dermatoglyphic traits, measured in an endogamous Brahmin caste of peninsular India. The phenotypes considered included: presence of accessory palmar triradii a′ and d′, associated with the interdigital areas II and IV, respectively; presence of an accessory axial triradius tt′ associated with the proximal marg…

  • Resolution of genetic and uterine environmental effects in a family study of new dermatoglyphic measure

    Open Access•K C Malhotra, M Vijayakumar et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1987•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    The heritability of sole pattern ridge counts was examined in two family studies of endogamous castes from peninsular India. The phenotypes included ridge counts for each of the eight configurational areas separately, all areas combined, and only distal areas combined. Differences in heritability estimates were found between populations as well as among the individual configurational areas. Although some ridge counts do not show familial resembla…

  • Familial aggregation of blood pressure and anthropometric variables in patrilocal households

    Open Access•Pamela J Byard, B N Mukherjee et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1989•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Fifty‐three households in a small Indian fishing community were surveyed for blood pressure, pulse rate, and anthropometric measurements (height, weight, and three skinfolds). In addition to nuclear family relationships, correlations for extended family members and in‐laws living within a common household were estimated by maximum likelihood. Based on likelihood ratio tests, the hypothesis that correlations among genetically unrelated pairs from …

  • Commingling analysis of blood pressure in the Tecumseh community health study

    Open Access•Michael A Province, J Keller et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1990

    A commingling analysis of the distribution of systolic and diastolic blood pressure was performed on measurements from 9,226 individuals living in Tecumseh, Michigan during 1962–1965. Even after correcting for skewness in the distributions, multiple normal distributions fit the data significantly better than a single normal one, suggesting some level of commingling. The exact nature of the components differed depending on the phenotype, and the n…

  • Genetic epidemiological study of blood pressure in sedentary rural agriculture population of West Bengal, India

    Open Access•Partha P Majumder, Zulfa Zulfa et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•1990•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    To study the genetic epidmiology of blood pressure (BP), data on 78 families were collected from a sedentary agriculture population of eastern India. The general levels of both systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures are found to be low (mean SBP = 106.41 mm Hg; means DBP = 63.94 mm Hg). Trends of blood pressures with age are similar to those reported earlier (e.g., in the Framingham study). Environmental variables—e.g., occupation and…

  • Heterogeneity among populations for familial aggregation of blood pressure

    Open Access•Treva Rice, Michael A Province et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1991

    A simple model of familial aggregation was applied to age–sex corrected systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure data from two separate studies: The Québec Family Study and the Tecumseh Community Health Study. Examination of the familial correlations suggested heterogeneity across studies in all DBP correlations, but for SBP only spouse correlations were higher in Québec. Fitting the path model to the data revealed that the only source o…

  • A commingling analysis of obesity in the Tecumseh community health study

    Open Access•Michael A Province, J Keller et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1991

    A commingling analysis of the distributions of obesity as quantified by Quetelet's index, triceps skinfold, suprailiac skinfold, umbilical skinfold, subscapular skinfold, a trunk‐extremity ratio of skinfold measurements and Quetelet‐adjusted trunk‐extremity ratio was performed in a population of 9,226 individuals living in Tecumseh, Michigan, during 1962–1965. For all but the (non‐Quetelet‐adjusted) trunk‐extremity ratio, two or three distributio…

  • Commingling and segregation analysis of blood pressure in consanguineous and nonconsanguineous families from Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open Access•A Nirmala, Treva Rice et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1992

    The hypothesis of a major gene effect for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) was examined in families from Andhra Pradesh, India, where consanguinity and marriage within caste are commonly practiced. The data were examined separately by noninbred versus complete (inbred + noninbred) families, both before and after correction for residual skewness. For SBP in the noninbred sample prior to skewness transformation, evid…

  • The impact of energy intake and energy expenditure of activity on the familial transmission of adiposity in an indian population

    Open Access•Laura E Mitchell, A Nirmala et al.•ARTICLE•American Journal of Human Biology•1993

    The effect of current energy intake and energy expenditure of activity on the familial transmission of five adiposity phenotypes was assessed using data from 473 nuclear families from the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Three measures of fatness, body mass index, the sum of six skinfolds, and the sum of three trunk skinfolds, and two measures of fat patterning, the ratio of trunk to extremity subcutaneous fat and the ratio of the subs…

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