ArticleNature human behaviour2018
Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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94 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Evidence of correlations between human partners based on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of 22 traits and UK Biobank analysis of 133 traits.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- International Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Assortative Mating for Educational Attainment.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorPooled it
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- Genetic similarity between partners has intensified throughout the 20th century.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Parental haplotype reconstruction in up to 440,209 UK and Estonian individuals reveals recent assortative mating dynamics.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Genomic-Relatedness Matching Expands Population Coverage, Improves Power, and Reduces Bias in Genetic Association Analyses.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Estimating uncertainty in family-based GWAS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Quantifying direct genetic signal captured by principal component adjustment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- A quantitative genetic model for indirect genetic effects and genomic imprinting under random and assortative mating.Genetics · 2026Article
- Within- and between-family genetic effects on educational achievement vary across countries and ages.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- The effect of long-range linkage disequilibrium on allele-frequency dynamics under stabilizing selection.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Generalized Stable Population and Agent-Based Models of Phenotypic Transmission in Human Populations, with an Application to Body Size.Human heredity · 2026Article
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- Criteria for detection of married or cohabiting couples in the UK Biobank.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Preference for mates with similar phenotypes; that is, assortative mating, is widely observed in humans
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