Assortative mating on blood type: Evidence from one million Chinese pregnancies

Blood type is one of the most fundamental phenotypes in biological, medical, and psychological studies. Using a unique dataset of one million Chinese pregnancies, we find strong evidence from a group of statistical tests for assortative mating on blood type. After controlling for anthropometric and...

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Autores principales: Hou, Yao, Tang, Ke, Wang, Jingyuan, Xie, Danxia, Zhang, Hanzhe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2022
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Social Sciences
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9907139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36516065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209643119
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Sumario:Blood type is one of the most fundamental phenotypes in biological, medical, and psychological studies. Using a unique dataset of one million Chinese pregnancies, we find strong evidence from a group of statistical tests for assortative mating on blood type. After controlling for anthropometric and socioeconomic confounders, assortative mating remains robust.

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