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Assortative mating and within-spouse pair comparisons

Spousal comparisons have been proposed as a design that can both reduce confounding and estimate effects of the shared adulthood environment. However, assortative mating, the process by which individuals select phenotypically (dis)similar mates, could distort associations when comparing spouses. We...

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Autores principales: Howe, Laurence J., Battram, Thomas, Morris, Tim T., Hartwig, Fernando P., Hemani, Gibran, Davies, Neil M., Smith, George Davey
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34735433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009883