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Correlations between Relatives arising from Sex-linked Genes

Nature volume 198, pages 314–315 (1963)Cite this article

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IN a recent communication, Garn and Rohmann1 report observations on the correlations between sibs in respect of three characters which they consider may be taken as reflecting developmental timing in man. The methods they used in calculating the correlation coefficients are not completely clear from their account; but the values which they obtained and which are reproduced in Table 1, are consistent over the three characters in showing that the correlation between pairs of sisters is markedly higher than that between pairs of unlike sex, which in turn is slightly higher than that between pairs of brothers. This the authors interpret as indicative of control by sex-linked genes.

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MATHER, K., JINKS, J. Correlations between Relatives arising from Sex-linked Genes. Nature 198, 314–315 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198314a0

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