Height associated variants demonstrate assortative mating in human populations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Li, Xiaoyin ^a   Redline, Susan ^b   Zhang, Xiang ^c   Williams, Scott ^a   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INBREEDING; BODY HEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSANGUINITY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOUSE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CONSANGUINITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SPOUSES;

EID: 85034454638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15864-x     Document Type: Article

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