Perfect genetic correlation between number of offspring and grandoffspring in an industrialized human population

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1032-1036

  Zietsch, Brendan P ^a,b   Kuja Halkola, Ralf ^c   Walum, Hasse ^c,d   Verweij, Karin J H ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Fecundity; Fertility; Grandchildren; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRANDCHILD; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX LIMITATION; TWINS;

CHILDREN; FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; GRANDCHILDREN; SELECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 84892903320     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310058111     Document Type: Article

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