No evidence for genetic assortative mating beyond that due to population stratification

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

Volumn 111, Issue 40, 2014, Pages

  Abdellaoui, Abdel ^a   Verweij, Karin J H ^a,b   Zietsch, Brendan P ^b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; METAGENOMICS; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPOUSE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; METAGENOMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPOUSES;

EID: 84907702451     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410781111     Document Type: Letter

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