Assortative mating on educational attainment leads to genetic spousal resemblance for polygenic scores

Intelligence

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 103-108

  Hugh Jones, David ^a   Verweij, Karin J H ^b   St Pourcain, Beate ^c   Abdellaoui, Abdel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Educational attainment; Polygenic scores

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994102672     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2016.08.005     Document Type: Article

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