Abstract
INTRODUCTIONTHE role of serum cholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis has been a subject of considerable interest and factors affecting serum cholesterol levels in man and in experimental animals have received much attention in recent years. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the effect of age upon serum cholesterol levels and to determine the degree to which it is under hereditary control.Rodbard et al. (1951) found the serum cholesterol levels of male chickens from one to twenty-five weeks of age to be comparable. Cherms et al. (1960) and Wood et al. (1961) found no significant variation in serum cholesterol level of chickens between one and ten weeks of age. An additional finding by these authors was a heritability estimate of 0.30 for serum cholesterol level. Utilizing the same populations as Cherms et al. (1960), Wilcox et al. (1963) estimated the heritability of serum cholesterol to…
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