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Impact of co-occurrent assortative mating and vertical cultural transmission on measures of genetic associations.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Aug 2026
Herzig Anthony F, Noûs Camille, Saint Pierre Aude, Perdry Hervé
Abstract excerpt
Assortative mating for a given phenotype is the phenomenon by which mates select each other based on their phenotypic similarity. Other phenomena can create positive correlation between the parents' and the offspring's environment: vertical cultural transmission, or dynastic effects. When these phenomena occur together, they induce a gene-environment correlation at the population scale. It will impact genetic...
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