title: Segregation analysis of apolipoproteins A-1 and B-100 measured before and after an exercise training program: the HERITAGE Family Study.
abstract: Complex segregation analyses of apolipoproteins (apo) A-1 and B-100 were performed in a sample of 520 individuals from 99 white families who participated in the HERITAGE Family Study. In these sedentary families, plasma apo A-1 and B-100 concentrations were measured before and after a 20-week endurance exercise training program. Baseline apo A-1 and B-100 were adjusted for the effects of age (age-adjusted baseline apo A-1 and B-100) and for the effects of age and BMI (age-BMI-adjusted baseline apo A-1 and B-100). The change in response to training was computed as a simple Delta (posttraining minus baseline) and was adjusted for age and the baseline (age-baseline-adjusted apo A-1 and B-100 responses to training). In the present study, a major gene could not be inferred for baseline apo A-1. Rather, we found a major effect along with a multifactorial effect accounting for 8% to 9% and 51% to 56% of the variance, respectively. In addition, no clear evidence supported a major-gene effect for its response to training, whereas the transmission of a major effect from parents to offspring was ambiguous, ie, genetic in nature or familial environmental in origin. The major effect accounted for 15% of the variance, with an additional 21% and 58% of the variance being accounted for by a multifactorial effect in parents and offspring, respectively. It is interesting to have obtained evidence of a putative recessive major locus for baseline apo B-100, which accounted for 50% to 56% of the variance, with an additional 25% to 29% of the variance due to a multifactorial effect. In contrast, no major effect for its response to training was identified, although a multifactorial effect was found that accounted for 27% of the variance. The novel findings arising from the present study are summarized as follows. Baseline apo A-1 and its response to training were influenced by a major effect and a multifactorial effect. Baseline apo B-100 was influenced by a putative major recessive gene with a multifactorial component, but its response to training was influenced solely by a multifactorial component in these sedentary families.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110-1093, USA. anping@wubios.wustl.edu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Borecki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bergeron
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Després
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Leon
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Wilmore
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bouchard
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D016632:Apolipoprotein A-I / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics; D053299:Apolipoprotein B-100; D001055:Apolipoproteins B / Q000097:blood* / Q000235:genetics; D020090:Chromosome Segregation; D017079:Exercise Tolerance / Q000235:genetics*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D016632:Apolipoprotein A-I; D053299:Apolipoprotein B-100; D001055:Apolipoproteins B