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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...
Autores principales: | Howe, Laurence J., Battram, Thomas, Morris, Tim T., Hartwig, Fernando P., Hemani, Gibran, Davies, Neil M., Smith, George Davey |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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