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Trends in Population Sex Ratios May be Explained by Changes in the Frequencies of Polymorphic Alleles of a Sex Ratio Gene

2009-06-01

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A test for heritability of the sex ratio in human genealogical data is reported here, with the finding that there is significant heritability of the parental sex ratio by male, but not female offspring. A population genetic model was used to examine the hypothesis that this is the result of an autosomal gene with polymorphic alleles, which affects the sex ratio of offspring through the male reproductive system. Th...

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Literature Corpus work: 9c595f8b-0d0e-5dfa-976c-2fb6da5f0328
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-008-9046-3

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