Comment on "An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couples"

• Type: Another Publication in an International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2008

Authors

Rodrigo Labouriau (Author) Other; Antonio Amorim (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Science

Vol. 322

Pages: 1634b-1634b

ISSN: 0036-8075

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-T8H

DOI: 10.1126/science.1161907

Abstract (EN): Helgason et al. (Reports, 8 February 2008, p. 813) reported a positive association between kinship and fertility in the Icelandic population. We point out that the data further suggest that fertility initially increases with kinship and then decays. This is supported by another large study on the Danish population suggesting a superposition of effects of inbreeding and outbreeding depression on human fertility.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 2