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Quantifying the prevalence of assortative mating in a human population

2019-11-23

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For the first time, empirical evidence allowed to construct the frequency distribution of a genetic relatedness index between the parents of about half a million individuals living in the UK. The results suggest that over 30% of the population is the product of parents mating assortatively. The rest is probably the offspring of parents matching the genetic composition of their partners randomly. High degrees of ge...

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Literature Corpus work: f9b0f0d3-1e3b-577c-9b92-1b6e6d95c488
DOI: 10.1101/848911

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