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• TITLE: Spousal concordance in academic achievements and IQ: A principal component analysis

  AUTHORS: Yue Pan, Ke-Sheng Wang

  KEYWORDS: Academic Achievements; IQ; Spousal Concordance; Principal Component Analysis

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.1 No.2, July 12, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Assortative mating, the tendency for mate selection to occur on the basis of similar traits plays an essential role in understanding the genetic variation on academic achievements and intelligence (IQ), it is also an important mechanism explaining spousal concordance. We used a subset of The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism sample to study the mating patterns in 84 pairs of spouses from Caucasian families with their academic achievements (reading, spelling, arithmetic, vocabulary and comprehension) and IQ (verbal IQ, performance IQ and full scale IQ). Simple correlation analysis showed that 6 of these 8 traits revealed evidence of spousal correlation (P