Table 1 Examples of common disorders and their heritability

From: Genetic testing and common disorders in a public health framework: how to assess relevance and possibilities

Multifactorial disease

Heritability

Age-related maculopathy

0.45

Age-related macular degeneration

0.46–0.71

Crohn disease

1.0

Prostate cancer

0.42

Breast cancer

0.27

Type 2 diabetes

0.26

Obesity

0.40–0.54

Coronary artery disease (CAD)

0.49

Death from CAD

0.57a

 

0.38b

Hypertension

0.80

  1. aMales.
  2. bFemales.
  3. Source: Modified from Lango and Weedon.36 Adapted by permission from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 2008 (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2796).
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