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SUBMITTER: Guo G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4226554 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guo Guang G Wang Lin L Liu Hexuan H Randall Thomas T
PloS one 20141110 11
Assortative mating in phenotype in human marriages has been widely observed. Using genome-wide genotype data from the Framingham Heart study (FHS; number of married couples = 989) and Health Retirement Survey (HRS; number of married couples = 3,474), this study investigates genomic assortative mating in human marriages. Two types of genomic marital correlations are calculated. The first is a correlation specific to a single married couple "averaged" over all available autosomal single-nucleotide ...[more]