assortative mating
Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity?
... There are several limitations to this study that should be acknowledged. First, the cross-sectional design of this study means that the causal direction of the relationship between face preferences and partner BMI is ...
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Population Response to Positive Assortative Mating in Forest Tree Breeding.
... positive assortative mating (PAM) in long-term forest tree breeding based on recurrent selection for general combining ...a mating hierarchy is imposed on the BP, either at an individual level (PAM) ...
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Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity Are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating
... The framework for nominal heritability analysis is a linear increase of relatives’ phenotypic correlation with their addi- tive relatedness (Falconer 1967), theoretically illustrated in Figure 3F. In this framework, ...
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No evidence for assortative mating within a willow warbler migratory divide
... Our sample of 40 pairs of willow warblers were col- lected over two years from one breeding population in the centre of the migratory divide. The site was carefully chosen because of its location based on previously de- ...
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Review article The hyper-systemizing, assortative mating theory of autism
... the following: (a) Both mothers and fathers of children with AS have been found to be strong in systemizing on the Embedded Figures Test (Baron-Cohen and Hammer, 1997). This study suggests that both parents may be ...
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Educational and age assortative mating in China:the importance of marriage order
... We used log-linear models to examine educational assortative mating patterns. The models controlled for gender differences in the marginal distribution of education, which allowed us to identify ...
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Educational and age assortative mating in China:The importance of marriage order
... Furthermore, our findings highlight the importance of controlling for age at marriage in the analysis of age assortative mating. Without accounting for age at marriage in Tables 2 and 4, remarried ...
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Educational and age assortative mating in China:The importance of marriage order
... on assortative mating to consider non-pecuniary dimensions such as age, in addition to a focus on socioeconomic ...affect assortative mating patterns (for reviews, see Blossfeld, 2009; ...
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Assortative Mating and Personality in Human Couples: A Study Using Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory
... The trend toward assortative mating is the rule in Western societies for a large series of factors. The case for personality variables is however not clear, since weak and even negative relationships have ...
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Variation in sexual dimorphism and assortative mating do not predict genetic divergence in the sexually dimorphic Goodeid fish Girardinichthys multiradiatus
... (Price, 1998). There are very few systems where female preference functions amongst populations have been examined and then compared to variation in male traits, and those that have do not always show the covariance that ...
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RUHR. The Dynamics of Assortative Mating in Germany ECONOMIC PAPERS #346. Barbara S. Grave Christoph M. Schmidt
... educational assortative mating in East and West ...highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic ...educational assortative mating has increased ...
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Assortative Mating and Partner Influence: Problem Behavior across the Life Course
... responsible for partner similarity. Perhaps couples share similar demographic characteristics or social environments that increase the probability for problem behavior. Research has shown significant evidence for social ...
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Small females prefer small males: size assortative mating in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
... of assortative mating for size exists in populations as in Drosophila [26–28], water striders [29] and beetles ...for mating preference influencing the impact of ...their mating pref- erence ...
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Divergent warning patterns contribute to assortative mating between incipient Heliconius species
... our no-choice trials with live butterflies (Table 1), males were more likely to attempt to mate conspecific females (LRT: 2ΔlnL = 5.28, df = 1, P = 0.022; Fig. 1). The same trend was apparent, although less pronounced, ...
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Positive Assortative Mating With Family Size as a Function of Predicted Parental Breeding Values
... positive assortative mating (PAM) applied in a long-term forest tree breeding program has the potential to generate extra genetic improvement in forest plantations ...random mating, but increases the ...
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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
... which assortative mating affects intergenerational economic mobility in Germany and Britain, following the suggestion by Chadwick and Solon (2002, ...
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The Effects of Migration and Assortative Mating on Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium
... ancestry-assortative mating in African Americans has been previously suggested by indirect examinations of re- lated features including skin color and varying ancestry distri- butions across geographic ...
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Assortative mating and Turkish marriage market
... of assortative mating shows the degree of similarity within ...positive assortative mating in Turkey, and the bias from the selection is ...the assortative mating coefficients in ...
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LIMITING DISTRIBUTION UNDER ASSORTATIVE MATING
... for a metric character dependent on two pairs of genes with additive and equal effects (Ch. 5) complete assortative mating within each of the five phenotypes would ultimately [r] ...
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Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Persistence of Schooling and Earnings
... that assortative mating among parents became stronger between the 1950s and 1980s in the ...0.40. Assortative mating can explain a significant fraction of the level of intergenerational ...
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