Educational Attainment Influences Levels of Homozygosity through Migration and Assortative Mating

Individuals with a higher education are more likely to migrate, increasing the chance of meeting a spouse with a different ancestral background. In this context, the presence of strong educational assortment can result in greater ancestry differences within more educated spouse pairs, while less edu...

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Main Authors: Abdellaoui, Abdel, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Willemsen, Gonneke, Bartels, Meike, van Beijsterveldt, Toos, Ehli, Erik A., Davies, Gareth E., Brooks, Andrew, Sullivan, Patrick F., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., de Geus, Eco J., Boomsma, Dorret I.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347978/