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A subset of 801 families were ascertained through extremely obese women (BMI \u2265 40 kg\/m<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>).<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Results:<\/jats:italic> Parent\u2010offspring and sibling correlations ranged from 0.19 to 0.15, suggesting a moderate level of heritability in both groups. Mean BMI values for female relatives were lower for European Americans than for African Americans even though probands were matched, perhaps because the European American relatives regress to a lower population mean. We found significantly higher family correlations for height in European Americans, suggesting greater environmental variability among African Americans for factors affecting growth and physical development.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Discussion:<\/jats:italic> Our results suggest a similar level of heritability of BMI in families of obese African American and European American women. 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