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assortative mating

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Noun1.assortative mating - mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random matingassortative mating - mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating
mating, pairing, sexual union, union, coupling, conjugation - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
disassortative mating - mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating
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The researchers not only found similar ancestry patterns between the pairs of spouses, they also found the imprint of many generations of such assortative mating in the genomic architecture within each individual.
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The specific consequences of assortative mating are complex, but it can be generalized that if individuals preferentially mate according to phenotypic similarity (positive assortative mating), it will normally increase quantitative genetic variance and that negative assortative mating generally has the opposite effect (Conner & Hartl 2004).
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A body of literature on assortative mating indicates that couples tend to pair up on the basis of similarity along different dimensions (see Watson et al.
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