caa a22 4500 475799585 CHVBK 20180406123733.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1010202902159 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1010202902159 Genetic and Environmental Contributions to the Association Between Body Height and Educational Attainment: A Study of Adult Finnish Twins [Elektronische Daten] [Karri Silventoinen, Jaakko Kaprio, Eero Lahelma] The nature of the association between body height and educational attainment found in previous studies remains to be clarified. The aim of this study was to examine factors contributing to this association by using a large Finnish twin data set (8798 adult twin pairs) gathered by questionnaire in 1981. A bivariate twin analysis was used to determine whether the genetic and environmental factors behind body height and educational attainment correlate with each other. A high heritability was found for body height (h 2 = 0.78 in men and h 2 = 0.75 in women), and a moderate heritability for education (h 2 = 0.47 and h 2 = 0.43, respectively). Shared environmental effects were also important in body height (c 2 = 0.12 in men and c 2 = 0.11 in women) and education (c 2 = 0.36 and c 2 = 0.43, respectively). A high correlation (r c = 0.77 in men, r c = 0.58 in women) of shared environmental factors education and body height, and weaker correlations (r = 0.11 and r = 0.08, respectively) of unshared environmental factors were found. The correlation of genetic factors between these two characteristics was not statistically significant. The results suggest that the association between body height and education is due mainly to nongenetic family factors. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Body height nationallicence education nationallicence environment nationallicence twins nationallicence Silventoinen Karri Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut Kaprio Jaakko Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut Lahelma Eero Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut Behavior Genetics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 30/6(2000-11-01), 477-485 0001-8244 30:6<477 2000 30 10519 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010202902159 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010202902159 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Silventoinen Karri Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kaprio Jaakko Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lahelma Eero Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Genetics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 30/6(2000-11-01), 477-485 0001-8244 30:6<477 2000 30 10519 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer