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| Title |
Family Structure and Age at Menarche: A Children-of-Twins Approach
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| Published in |
Developmental Psychology, January 2006
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| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.42.3.533 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jane Mendle, Eric Turkheimer, Brian M. D'Onofrio, Stacy K. Lynch, Robert E. Emery, Wendy S. Slutske, Nicholas G. Martin |
| Abstract |
Girls who grow up in households with an unrelated adult male reach menarche earlier than peers, a finding hypothesized to be an evolutionary strategy for families under stress. The authors tested the alternative hypothesis that nonrandom selection into stepfathering due to shared environmental and/or genetic predispositions creates a spurious relation between stepfathering and early menarche. Using the unique controls for genetic and shared environmental experiences offered by the children-of-twins design, the authors found that cousins discordant for stepfathering did not differ in age of menarche. Moreover, controlling for mother's age of menarche eliminated differences in menarcheal age associated with stepfathering in unrelated girls. These findings strongly suggest selection, and not causation, accounts for the relationship between stepfathering and early menarche. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 11% |
| Japan | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 6 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 89% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 111 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 106 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 16% |
| Researcher | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 9% |
| Professor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 20 | 18% |
| Unknown | 20 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 31 | 28% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 13 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 7% |
| Unknown | 27 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2023.
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