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Marriage and genetic variation across the lifespan: not a steady relationship?
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2007
Trumbetta Susan L, Markowitz Ezra M, Gottesman Irving I
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The prevalence of marriage varies across the lifespan, as does its importance to reproduction and the nurturance of children. We examined genetic and environmental influences on self-reported marriage at each decade from 20 through 70 years of age, using data collected for the Duke Dementia Study, a followed-up subset of the World War II Veteran Twin Registry. Genetic influences best fit a common factor model,...
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