Gene-environment correlation, also called genotype-environment correlation, describes the situation in which a person's exposure to a given environmental condition depends on their own genotype.
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Core ClaimGenes influence which environments a person is exposed to, indirectly through behavior, so that exposure to environmental conditions depends on genotype. 1 Connections
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Gene-environment correlation and gene-environment interaction are the two companion mechanisms behavioral genetics uses to describe how genes and environment jointly shape development, routinely presented and studied together in the same literature.
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1. Wikipedia: Gene-Environment Correlation
DefinitionQuote, Definition
Of principal interest are those causal mechanisms which indicate genetic control over environmental exposure. Genetic variants influence environmental exposure indirectly via behavior.
2. Wikipedia: Niche picking
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In 1983, psychology professors Sandra Scarr and Kathleen McCartney proposed that genes affect the environments individuals choose to interact with
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