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The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 23 Jan 2018
Domingue Benjamin W, Belsky Daniel W, Fletcher Jason M, Conley Dalton, Boardman Jason D, Harris Kathleen Mullan
Abstract excerpt
Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them. Whether this sorting of like with like arises from historical patterns of migration, meso-level social structures in modern society, or individual-level selection of similar peers remains unsettled. Recent research has evaluated the possibility that unobserved genotypes may play an important role in the creation of homophilous relationships....
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