The effects of social homogamy and cultural inheritance on the covariances of twins and their parents: A LISREL model

L. J. Eaves; D. W. Fulker; A. C. Heath

doi:10.1007/BF01065887

The effects of social homogamy and cultural inheritance on the covariances of twins and their parents: A LISREL model

L. J. Eaves, D. W. Fulker, A. C. Heath

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In general, models involving parent-offspring transmission are not possible to specify in LISREL due to the complex constraints implied by assortative mating and genotype-environmental correlation. In this short note we describe one simple model of resemblance among twins and their parents which can be accommodated in the LISREL specification due to the strong assumption of social homogamy. The specification is described fully and checked for identification, and its power to resolve different parameters is briefly examined.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	113-122
Number of pages	10
Journal	Behavior genetics
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065887
State	Published - Jan 1989

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social homogamy
twin-parent design

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