GeneticsBehavior GeneticsPeer-reviewed
Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable
Zenab Tamimy, Sofieke T. Kevenaar, Jouke‐Jan Hottenga…·Dorret Irene Boomsma
This paper applies a 3-level multilevel model to twin data, showing that regional clustering explains 1.8% of children's height variance, which is ancestry-related and disappears after genetic principal components correction.
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