Heritability of the dimensions, compliance and distensibility of the human internal jugular vein wall.
Adam Domonkos TarnokiAndrea Agnes MolnarDavid Laszlo TarnokiLevente LittvayEmanuela MeddaCorrado FagnaniAntonio ArnofiFilippo FarinaClaudio BaracchiniGiorgio MeneghettiGiacomo PucciGiuseppe SchillaciMaria Antonietta StaziGyörgy László NádasyPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Our study has shown substantial heritability of IJV biomechanics at higher venous pressures even after adjustment for age and gender. These findings yield an important insight to what degree the geometric and elastic properties of the vascular wall are formed by genetic and by environmental factors in humans.