Osteopenia in 37 Members of Seven Families: Analysis Based on a Model of Dominant Inheritance

Table 4 Multiple regression analysis of uncorrected values for spinal BMD (L2–L4) in males and females from the seven families who were tested for VDR genotype

Variable	Males (n = 56)			Females (n = 58)
Variable	Coefficient		p	Coefficient		p
Constant	0.121		0.828	0.540		0.148
Age (years)	0.001		0.767	−0.007		0.000
Height (cm)	0.004		0.236	0.003		0.129
Weight (kg)	0.004		0.023	0.004		0.002
VDR	−0.021		0.508	−0.029		0.266
R²		0.189			0.517
R² if VDR is excluded from regression		0.182			0.505

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