Familial Clustering of Abdominal Visceral Fat and Total Fat Mass: The Québec Family Study
✍ Scribed by Rice, Treva ;Pérusse, Louis ;Bouchard, Claude ;Rao, DC
- Book ID
- 115557120
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 776 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1071-7323
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Family resemblance for several measures of body fat and fat distribution was explored in the longitudinal Québec Family Study (QFS), including an overall measure of adiposity (body mass index, BMI), total subcutaneous fat (the sum of 6 skinfolds, SF6), and subcutaneous fat distribution (the trunk to
Familial resemblance was examined for each of the principal components arising from a n analysis of six skinfolds (triceps, biceps, subscapular, abdominal, suprailiac, and medial calf) measured in 1,237 participants of the Quehec Family Study. Most of the phenotypic variance among the skinfolds (83%