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TITLE
Religious affiliation in twins and their parents: testing a model of cultural inheritance.
ABSTRACT
The transmission of religious affiliation is analyzed in a sample of 3810 Australian twin pairs and their parents. Twins were classified by sex, zygosity, and whether they were living together or apart. Analysis of twin, spousal, and parent-offspring resemblance shows that several different forms of cultural inheritance operate jointly in the transmission of religious affiliation. Model-fitting methods show that (1) the environmental influence of mothers is significantly greater than fathers; (2) there is a substantial amount of assortative mating for religious affiliation; (3) there is a substantial environmental component shared by twins which does not depend on parental religious affiliation; (4) religious affiliation attributed to parents by their children is biased by the religious affiliation of the children; (5) nongenetic effects on the expression of religious affiliation are much greater in twins living together; and (6) a moderate genetic effect on religious affiliation is expressed in females but only when twins live apart. Implications of the method and findings are discussed for other aspects of family resemblance, including the analysis of social and occupational mobility.
DATE PUBLISHED
1990 Jan
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1990/01/01
medline 1990/01/01 00:01
entrez 1990/01/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Eaves LJ Eaves L J LJ Department of Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298-0033.
Martin NG Martin N G NG
Heath AC Heath A C AC
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 20
ISSUE: 1
TITLE: Behavior genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Behav. Genet.
YEAR: 1990
MONTH: Jan
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0001-8244
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Behav Genet
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 0001-8244
NLMUNIQUEID: 0251711
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AG04954 NIA NIH HHS United States
GM30250 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
GM32732 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Genetic
Religion and Medicine
Religion and Psychology
Social Environment
Twins genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
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GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's