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Genotype × Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth

Overview of attention for article published in Behavior Genetics, December 2014
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Genotype × Cohort Interaction on Completed Fertility and Age at First Birth
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Behavior Genetics, December 2014
DOI 10.1007/s10519-014-9693-3
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Daniel A. Briley, K. Paige Harden, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob

Abstract

Microevolutionary projections use empirical estimates of genetic covariation between physical or psychological phenotypes and reproductive success to forecast changes in the population distributions of those phenotypes over time. The validity of these projections depends on relatively consistent heritabilities of fertility-relevant outcomes and consistent genetic covariation between fertility and other physical or psychological phenotypes across generations. However, well-documented, rapidly changing mean trends in the level and timing of fertility may have been accompanied by differences in the genetic mechanisms of fertility. Using a sample of 933 adult twin pairs from the Midlife Development in the United States study, we demonstrate that genetic influences on completed fertility and age at first birth were trivial for the 1920-1935 birth cohort, but rose substantially for the 1936-1955 birth cohort. For the 1956-1970 birth cohort, genetic influences on completed fertility, but not age at first birth, persisted. Because the heritability of fertility is subject to change dynamically with the social context, it is difficult to project selection pressures or the rate at which selection will occur.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 36 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Student > Master 6 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Researcher 3 8%
Other 9 24%
Unknown 6 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 24%
Social Sciences 5 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 11%
Engineering 3 8%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 8 22%
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