Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century

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

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 6647-6652

  Conley, Dalton ^a,b   Laidley, Thomas ^a   Belsky, Daniel W ^c,d   Fletcher, Jason M ^e   Boardman, Jason D ^f   Domingue, Benjamin W ^g  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Social Science Research Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Cohort trends; Fertility; Polygenic scores

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSORTATIVE MATING; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL EDUCATION; TREND STUDY; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTORY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84974795028     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523592113     Document Type: Review

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