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| Estimating the sex-specific effects of genes on facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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| Human facial attractiveness and facial sexual dimorphism (masculinity-femininity) are important facets of mate choice and are hypothesized to honestly advertise genetic quality. However, it is unclear whether genes influencing facial attractiveness and masculinity-femininity have similar, opposing, or independent effects across sex, and the heritability of these phenotypes is poorly characterized. To investigate these issues, we assessed facial attractiveness and facial masculinity-femininity in the largest genetically informative sample (n = 1,580 same- and opposite-sex twin pairs and siblings) to assess these questions to date. The heritability was ~0.50-0.70 for attractiveness and ~0.40-0.50 for facial masculinity-femininity, indicating that, despite ostensible selection on genes influencing these traits, substantial genetic variation persists in both. Importantly, we found evidence for intralocus sexual conflict, whereby alleles that increase masculinity in males have the same effect in females. Additionally, genetic influences on attractiveness were shared across the sexes, suggesting that attractive fathers tend to have attractive daughters and attractive mothers tend to have attractive sons. |
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| HISTORY |
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PUBSTATUSDATE |
| received |
2013/05/02 |
| accepted |
2013/10/24 |
| entrez |
2013/11/12 06:00 |
| pubmed |
2013/11/12 06:00 |
| medline |
2015/04/07 06:00 |
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| AUTHORS |
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| NAME |
COLLECTIVENAME |
LASTNAME |
FORENAME |
INITIALS |
AFFILIATION |
AFFILIATIONINFO |
| Mitchem DG |
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Mitchem |
Dorian G |
DG |
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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, dorian.mitchem@colorado.edu. |
| Purkey AM |
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Purkey |
Alicia M |
AM |
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| Grebe NM |
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Grebe |
Nicholas M |
NM |
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| Carey G |
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Carey |
Gregory |
G |
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| Garver-Apgar CE |
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Garver-Apgar |
Christine E |
CE |
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| Bates TC |
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Bates |
Timothy C |
TC |
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| Arden R |
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Arden |
Rosalind |
R |
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| Hewitt JK |
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Hewitt |
John K |
JK |
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| Medland SE |
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Medland |
Sarah E |
SE |
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| Martin NG |
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Martin |
Nicholas G |
NG |
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| Zietsch BP |
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Zietsch |
Brendan P |
BP |
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| Keller MC |
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Keller |
Matthew C |
MC |
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| JOURNAL |
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| VOLUME: 44 |
| ISSUE: 3 |
| TITLE: Behavior genetics |
| ISOABBREVIATION: Behav Genet |
| YEAR: 2014 |
| MONTH: May |
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| CITEDMEDIUM: Internet |
| ISSN: 1573-3297 |
| ISSNTYPE: Electronic |
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| MEDLINETA: Behav Genet |
| COUNTRY: United States |
| ISSNLINKING: 0001-8244 |
| NLMUNIQUEID: 0251711 |
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| PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT |
| Journal Article |
| Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural |
| Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| Twin Study |
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| COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS |
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AGENCY |
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| MH085812 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| K01 MH085812 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| R01 MH063207 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| MH63207 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| R56 MH063207 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| T32 MH016880 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
| R01 MH100141 |
NIMH NIH HHS |
United States |
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| GENERAL NOTE |
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| KEYWORDS |
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| MESH HEADINGS |
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| DESCRIPTORNAME |
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| Beauty |
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| Choice Behavior |
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| Face |
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| Female |
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| Humans |
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| Male |
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| Models, Genetic |
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| Sex Characteristics |
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| Sexual Behavior |
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