Assortative mating on educational attainment leads to genetic spousal resemblance for polygenic scores
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- 作者：David Hugh-Jonesa ; 1 ; davidhughjones@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Karin J.H. Verweijb ; 1 ; Beate St. Pourcainc ; Abdel Abdellaouib ; a.abdellaoui@vu.nl" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Assortative mating ; Educational attainment ; Polygenic scores
- 刊名：Intelligence
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November-December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：59
- 期：Complete
- 页码：103-108
- 全文大小：613 K
文摘
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Educational attainment (EA) shows high levels of assortative mating
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Polygenic scores for EA significantly predict own EA and the EA of the spouse
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Polygenic scores for EA significantly correlate between spouses, indicating that assortment for EA is reflected in the genome