Assortative Mating Across the Full Spectrum of Mental Disorders: A Nationwide Finnish Register Study [PDF]
Biological Psychiatry Global Open ScienceBackground: Previous research has shown assortative mating across various psychiatric disorders; however, their definitions of partnership have often been limited, and the timing of relationship formation has been imprecise.
Kateryna Golovina +3 more
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Genetic assortative mating for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2022 Background Psychiatric disorders are highly polygenic and show patterns of partner resemblance. Partner resemblance has direct population-level genetic implications if it is caused by assortative mating, but not if it is caused by convergence or social ...
Oskar Hougaard Jefsen +16 more
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The mechanism of assortative mating for educational attainment: a study of Finnish and Dutch twins and their spouses [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Introduction: Assortative mating refers describes a phenomenon in which individuals with similar phenotypic traits are more likely to mate and reproduce with each other; i.e.
Bodine M. A. Gonggrijp +9 more
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Do Opposites Attract? Educational Assortative Mating and Dynamics of Wage Homogamy in Switzerland, 1992–2014 [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 This paper addresses homogamy and assortative mating in Switzerland. The empirical analysis monitors trends for education and hourly wages using the Swiss Labour Force Survey and the Swiss Household Panel.
Ravazzini Laura +2 more
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International Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Assortative Mating for Educational Attainment [PDF]
Evolutionary PsychologyPrevious studies have found a high degree of assortative mating for educational attainment (r = .56). However, this can be confounded by cohort effects or country effects, where certain nations may have more pronounced assortative mating than others.
Sebastian Jensen, Emil Kirkegaard
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Genetic similarity between relatives provides evidence on the presence and history of assortative mating [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAssortative mating – the non-random mating of individuals with similar traits – is known to increase trait-specific genetic variance and genetic similarity between relatives.
Hans Fredrik Sunde +8 more
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Assortative Mating and Linkage Disequilibrium [PDF]
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 Assortative mating has been suggested to result in an increase in heritability and additive genetic variance through an increase in linkage disequilibrium.
Philip W. Hedrick
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Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2019 It is often claimed that pair bonds preferentially form between individuals that resemble one another. Such assortative mating appears to be widespread throughout the animal kingdom.
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Assortative mating biases marker-based heritability estimators [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Methods for estimating heritability, the fraction of variance attributable to genetic factors, assume random mating. Here, the authors show that under assortative mating, when mate choice reflects phenotypic similarity, these methods produce ...
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Modeling assortative mating and genetic similarities between partners, siblings, and in-laws [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Assortative mating could violate the assumption of random mating used in many genetic studies. Here, the authors study more than 25,000 Norwegian families to find genetic similarity between partners, siblings, and in-laws in genetic factors related to ...
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