Assortative mating and within-spouse pair comparisons

Spousal comparisons have been proposed as a design that can both reduce confounding and estimate effects of the shared adulthood environment. However, assortative mating, the process by which individuals select phenotypically (dis)similar mates, could distort associations when comparing spouses. We...

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Main Authors: Laurence J. Howe, Thomas Battram, Tim T. Morris, Fernando P. Hartwig, Gibran Hemani, Neil M. Davies, George Davey Smith
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/4c0d0920af504fe4b69994aaf377263e
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