Article
Model of genetic variation in human social networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Feb 2009
Fowler James H, Dawes Christopher T, Christakis Nicholas A
Abstract excerpt
Social networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. Although genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in many complex social behaviors, the heritability of egocentric social network attributes is unknown. Here, we show that 3 of these attributes (in-degree, transitivity, and centrality) are heritable. We then develop a "mirror network" method...
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