Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain

Nature Human Behaviour

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2019, Pages 1332-1342

  Abdellaoui, Abdel ^a   Hugh Jones, David ^b   Yengo, Loic ^c   Kemper, Kathryn E ^c   Nivard, Michel G ^d   Veul, Laura ^a   Holtz, Yan ^c   Zietsch, Brendan P ^c   Frayling, Timothy M ^e   Wray, Naomi R ^c   Yang, Jian ^c   Verweij, Karin J H ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; PLANT LEAF; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRATIFICATION;

EID: 85074261733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23973374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0757-5     Document Type: Article

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