Article
Mega-analysis of 31,396 individuals from 6 countries uncovers strong gene-environment interaction for human fertility
2016-04-18
Abstract excerpt
Family and twin studies suggest that up to 50% of individual differences in human fertility within a population might be heritable. However, it remains unclear whether the genes associated with fertility outcomes such as number of children ever born (NEB) or age at first birth (AFB) are the same across geographical and historical environments. By not taking this into account, previous genetic studies implicitly as...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 549c0d8d-fefc-5b1d-ab8c-bcaa1a0dd5ce
- DOI
- 10.1101/049163