Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome

Nature Human Behaviour

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 948-954

  Yengo, Loic ^a   Robinson, Matthew R ^a,b   Keller, Matthew C ^c   Kemper, Kathryn E ^a   Yang, Yuanhao ^a   Trzaskowski, Maciej ^a   Gratten, Jacob ^a,d   Turley, Patrick ^e,f   Cesarini, David ^g,h   Benjamin, Daniel J ^g,i   Wray, Naomi R ^a   Goddard, Michael E ^j,k   Yang, Jian ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^k Landscape and Water Sciences   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BODY HEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BODY HEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 85057318918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23973374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0476-3     Document Type: Letter

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