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Using adopted individuals to partition maternal genetic effects into prenatal and postnatal effects on offspring phenotypes
2021-08-06
Abstract excerpt
Maternal genetic effects can be defined as the effect of a mother’s genotype on the phenotype of her offspring, independent of the offspring’s genotype. Maternal genetic effects can act via the intrauterine environment during pregnancy and/or via the postnatal environment. In this manuscript, we present a simple extension to the basic adoption design that uses structural equation modelling (SEM) to partition mater...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e676b240-0de6-5abf-b1f2-7f4c4509b13c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.08.04.455178
