Genetic determination of height-mediated mate choice

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tenesa, Albert ^a,b,c   Rawlik, Konrad ^a,c   Navarro, Pau ^b   Canela Xandri, Oriol ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Genome structure; Missing heritability

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; COVARIANCE; GENOTYPE; HEIGHT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATE CHOICE; MODEL; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALLELES; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84969318667     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0833-8     Document Type: Article

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