The genetic correlation between height and IQ: shared genes or assortative mating?
The genetic correlation between height and IQ: shared genes or assortative mating?
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United States: Public Library of Science
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English
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United States: Public Library of Science
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Traits that are attractive to the opposite sex are often positively correlated when scaled such that scores increase with attractiveness, and this correlation typically has a genetic component. Such traits can be genetically correlated due to genes that affect both traits ("pleiotropy") and/or because assortative mating causes statistical correlati...
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The genetic correlation between height and IQ: shared genes or assortative mating?
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1351901779
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1351901779
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1553-7404,1553-7390
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1553-7404
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1003451
