Filters: Date: "1982" School Or College: "College of Social & Behavioral Science" Collection: "ir_uspace"
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Ascertainment bias for non-twin relatives in twin proband studies | When families are ascertained through affected twins, as for example when twin probands are selected from a registry and their non-twin relatives studied, a correction for ascertainment bias is needed. It is shown that probandwise counting (where relatives of doubly ascertained twin pairs are counte... | Genetic; Transmission; Models | 1982 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page; Bean, Lee Lawrence | Macrosimulation approach to the investigation of natural fertility | This paper is part of a long-term investigation known as the Mormon Historical Demography Project. It examines the capability of a simulation model, originally proposed by John Bongaarts (1976), to fit the natural fertility pattern which characterized the mid-nineteenth century Mormon population. Ap... | Mormon Historical Demography Project; Macrosimulation; Natural fertility | 1982 |
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O'Rourke, Dennis H. | Refutation of the general single locus model for the etiology of schizophrenia | All published studies on the familial incidence of schizophrenia appropriate for testing the applicability of the general single-locus two-allele model are examined under the assumption of a unitary etiology for all schizophrenia. We show that the single major locus model is inadequate to predict th... | Genetics; Diseases in Twins; Chromosome Mapping | 1982 |
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Mineau, Geraldine Page | Specification of marital fertility by parents' age, age at marriage and marital duration | The positive association between wife's age at marriage and fertility experienced at the older reproductive ages, cited in recent natural fertility literature, is explored using Mormon birth cohorts from 1840 to 1879. When this relationship is specified by husband's age at marriage and marriage dur... | Marital fertility; Marital duration; Paternal age; Father's age; Mother's age | 1982 |
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