{"id":7061,"date":"2014-05-20T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7061"},"modified":"2014-05-20T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:43:19","slug":"non-random-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/non-random-mating\/","title":{"rendered":"Non random mating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/05\/14\/1321426111.full.pdf+html\">PNAS<\/a> finds evidence for non-random mating<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spouses are more genetically similar than two individuals chosen at random &#8230; our unadjusted GAM result of 0.045 suggests that a 1-SD increase in genetic similarity increases the probability of marriage by roughly 15%. This association is confounded, in part, by intraethnic marriage among whites but we continue to observe GAM even after a se- ries of models designed to eliminate this source of assortative mating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes somewhat unexpected. Unfortunately, the authors missed in their discussion what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1715964\/pdf\/ajhg00009-0033.pdf\">Carole Ober published about HLA and mate choice<\/a> in humans<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Hutterite mate choice is influenced by HLA haplotypes, with an avoidance of spouses with haplotypes that are the same as one&#8217;s own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I am a bit confused &#8211; more similar in general but still different at the HLA locus??<br \/>\nReminds me to the old joke, that your male genome is more similar to a male chimpanzee (on a per base statistic) than to your wife.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in PNAS finds evidence for non-random mating Spouses are more genetically similar than two individuals chosen at random &#8230; our unadjusted GAM result of 0.045 suggests that a 1-SD increase in genetic similarity increases the probability of marriage by roughly 15%. This association is confounded, in part, by intraethnic marriage among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/non-random-mating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non random mating<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2868,2867,2866,2865],"class_list":["post-7061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-us","tag-adults","tag-assortative-mating","tag-random-mating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}