The Genetic Correlation between Height and IQ: Shared Genes or Assortative Mating?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Keller, Matthew C ^a   Garver Apgar, Christine E ^b   Wright, Margaret J ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Corley, Robin P ^a   Stallings, Michael C ^a   Hewitt, John K ^a   Zietsch, Brendan P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSORTIVE MATING; ATTRACTION; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MATING; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PERSONALITY; PLEIOTROPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84876874368     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003451     Document Type: Article

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