The effect of assumptions about parental assortative mating and genotype-income correlation on estimates of genotype-environment interaction in the national merit twin study

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-169

  Loehlin, John C ^a   Harden, K Paige ^b   Turkheimer, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Cognitive skill; Genotype environment correlation; Genotype environment interaction; Income; National Merit Twin Study; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; MALE; PARENT; SKILL; TWINS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCOME; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARENTS; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL CLASS; SPOUSES; TWINS;

EID: 60049098353     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-008-9253-9     Document Type: Article

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