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...
Main Authors: | Abdel Abdellaoui, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Gonneke Willemsen, Meike Bartels, Toos van Beijsterveldt, Erik A Ehli, Gareth E Davies, Andrew Brooks, Patrick F Sullivan, Brenda W J H Penninx, Eco J de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118935 |
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