Imprint of assortative mating on the human genome
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Human Behaviour
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group UK
- Publication Date
- Nov 26, 2018
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 948–954
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0476-3
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Yellow
Abstract
A century after being predicted by theory, the authors detect and quantify the genomic signature of assortative mating in ~400,000 contemporary human genomes, and report new genetic evidence for assortative mating on height and educational attainment.