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- Title
Risk Ratios for Obesity in Families of Obese African-American and Caucasian Women.
- Authors
Price, R. Arlen; Lee, Joseph H.
- Abstract
We examined age- and sex-standardized risk ratios (SRRs) in matched samples of 1,185 families of obese African-American and Caucasian women. Familial risk ratios increased with body mass index (BMI) of proband and BMI thresholds of relative. Ratios were higher in Caucasian than African-American families, apparently because Caucasian probands were more extreme relative to their population mean. Risk ratios for moderate obesity (BMI ≥ 30) were around 2 for African-Americans and were a little higher in Caucasians. Ratios for extreme obesity (BMI ≥ 40) ranged from 3 to 5 in African-Americans and from about 5 to 9 in Caucasians. Thin relatives were rare in families of both races. Risk ratios appear high enough in both racial groups to facilitate the identification of quantitative trait loci underlying common obesity phenotypes. The high population prevalence of obesity in African-American women will require particularly high selection thresholds to achieve risk ratios comparable to those for Caucasians. The scarcity of thin siblings in both groups will greatly increase the effort required in sample recruitment for discordant pair designs. Copyright © 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Human Heredity, 2001, Vol 51, Issue 1/2, p35
- ISSN
0001-5652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000022957