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 Hedrick
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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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Assortative mating without assortative preference [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015 Significance Assortative mating, the tendency of men and women who marry to have similar social characteristics, is a commonly observed phenomenon in human societies. This study shows that assortative mating could result from structural causes independent of human agents’ preference, because unmarried persons who newly enter marriage are ...
Yu Xie, Siwei Cheng, Xiang Zhou, 周湘
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Assortative Mating and Increase in Prevalence and Severity of Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Children—A Systematic Review [PDF]
ChildrenBackground/objectives: The prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder has been increasing rapidly in the world population and the cause of this increase is unknown.
Michael Eisenhut, Anjana Jeevan
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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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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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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.
Daiping Wang +10 more
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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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A Model for the Evolution of Assortative Mating [PDF]
American Naturalist, 2008 Abstract: Many animals and plants show a correlation between the traits of the individuals in the mating pair, implying assortative mating. Given the ubiquity of assortative mating in nature, why and how it has evolved remain open questions. Here we attempt to answer these questions in those cases where the trait under assortment is the same in males ...
Angeles de Cara
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