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    People don’t mate randomly – but the flawed assumption that they do is an essential part of [genome wide association studies], Border & Zaitlen, 2022

    Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use to assess genetic correlations assume that mating is random. That is, they assume that potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice. In reality, many factors likely influence who mates...
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