Educational Attainment Influences Levels of Homozygosity through Migration and Assortative Mating

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 3; p. e0118935
• Main Authors: Abdellaoui, Abdel, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Willemsen, Gonneke, Bartels, Meike, van Beijsterveldt, Toos, Ehli, Erik A., Davies, Gareth E., Brooks, Andrew, Sullivan, Patrick F., Penninx, Brenda W. J. H., de Geus, Eco J., Boomsma, Dorret I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 03.03.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Assortative mating; Cognitive ability; Education; Educational attainment; Educational Status; Etiology; Female; Genetics; Genome, Human; Genomes; Genomics; Geography; Higher education; Homozygosity; Homozygote; Human Migration - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Male; Mating; Migration; Netherlands; Neurosciences; Offspring; Parents; Population; Registries; Religion; Reproductive Behavior - psychology; Statistics, Nonparametric; Studies; Travel - psychology; Travel - statistics & numerical data; Netherlands; South Dakota; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; New Jersey

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...