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18258915

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5864
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-8
pubmed:abstractText
Previous studies have reported that related human couples tend to produce more children than unrelated couples but have been unable to determine whether this difference is biological or stems from socioeconomic variables. Our results, drawn from all known couples of the Icelandic population born between 1800 and 1965, show a significant positive association between kinship and fertility, with the greatest reproductive success observed for couples related at the level of third and fourth cousins. Owing to the relative socioeconomic homogeneity of Icelanders, and the observation of highly significant differences in the fertility of couples separated by very fine intervals of kinship, we conclude that this association is likely to have a biological basis.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
319
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
813-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-1-5
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples.
pubmed:affiliation
deCODE Genetics, Sturlugata 8, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. agnar@decode.is
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article