GENERAL CAUSAL-MODELS FOR SEX-DIFFERENCES IN THE FAMILIAL TRANSMISSION OF MULTIFACTORIAL TRAITS - AN APPLICATION TO HUMAN SPATIAL VISUALIZING ABILITY
GENERAL CAUSAL-MODELS FOR SEX-DIFFERENCES IN THE FAMILIAL TRANSMISSION OF MULTIFACTORIAL TRAITS - AN APPLICATION TO HUMAN SPATIAL VISUALIZING ABILITY
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10.1080/19485565.1980.9988401
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发表时间：
1980-01-01
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REICH, T
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RICE, J;CLONINGER, CR;REICH, T
给出了一种通用的多因子模型来解释表现两性二态性的性状的遗传。该模型允许多基因遗传、文化传播、表型选型交配和共同的饲养环境。本文描述了几种文化机制，其中从父母到后代的传播是性别依赖的，并且可能导致许多不同的性别特异性相关模式。本文描述了一般模型的一种特殊情况，即男性和女性之间的表型差异仅是由于非传染性环境因素和/或遗传因素的差异造成的，这些因素不会导致性别内的变异性。利用其他人报告的数据，将这些模型应用于人的空间可视化能力，估计可传播因素所占的差异比例为45%。既不需要与X相关的假设，也不需要特定于性别的文化机制来解释空间能力的传递。
A general multifactorial model is given for the inheritance of traits that exhibit a sexual dimorphism. The model allows for polygenic inheritance, cultural transmission, phenotypic assortative mating, and a common environment of rearing. Several cultural mechanisms are described for which transmission from parent to offspring is sex‐dependent and for which many different patterns of sex‐specific correlations can result. A special case of the general model is described in which phenotypic differences between males and females are due only to differences in nontransmissible environmental factors and/or genetic factors that do not contribute to variability within a sex. Application of these models to human spatial visualizing ability, using data reported by others, gives an estimate of 45 per cent for the proportion of the variance that is accounted for by transmissible factors. Neither an X‐linked hypothesis nor a sex‐specific cultural mechanism is required to explain the transmission of spatial ability.