MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE WITH CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND ASSORTATIVE MATING .2. GENERAL-MODEL OF COMBINED POLYGENIC AND CULTURAL INHERITANCE
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 31 (2), 176-198
Abstract
A general linear model of combined polygenic-cultural inheritance is described. The model allows for phenotypic assortative mating, common environment, maternal and paternal effects, and genic-cultural correlation. General formulae for phenotypic correlation between family members in extended pedigrees are given for both primary and secondary assortative mating. A FORTRAN program BETA (available upon request) is used to provide maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters from reported correlations. American data about IQ and Burks'' culture index are analyzed. Both cultural and genetic components of phenotypic variance make significant and substantial contributions to familial resemblance in IQ. The correlation between the environments of DZ [dizygotic] twins is found to equal that of singleton sibs, not that of MZ [monozygotic] twins. Burks'' culture index is found to be an imperfect measure of midparent IQ rather than an index of home environment as previously assumed. Conditions under which the parameters of the model may be uniquely and precisely estimated are discussed. Interpretation of variance components in the presence of assortative mating and genic-cultural covariance is reviewed. A conservative, but robust, approach to the use of environmental indices is described.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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