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Genomic assortative mating in marriages in the United States.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Guo Guang, Wang Lin, Liu Hexuan, Randall Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Assortative mating in phenotype in human marriages has been widely observed. Using genome-wide genotype data from the Framingham Heart study (FHS; number of married couples = 989) and Health Retirement Survey (HRS; number of married couples = 3,474), this study investigates genomic assortative mating in human marriages. Two types of genomic marital correlations are calculated. The first is a correlation specific...
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