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When your older sibling chooses to stay in education for longer, so do you: new study suggests nature and nurture combine to link siblings' educational attainment

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When your older sibling chooses to stay in education for longer, so do you: new study suggests nature and nurture combine to link siblings' educational attainment

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Article URL:  http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010247

Article Title: Evaluating indirect genetic effects of siblings using singletons

Author Countries: U.K., Australia, Norway

Funding: LJH, GH, GDS and NMD work in a unit that receives support from the University of Bristol and the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00011/1). DME is supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (APP1137714). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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