Mills MC

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus · active 2015-2019

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other 2019
Frontiers in sociology ·doi:10.3389/fsoc.2019.00074

Biological, genetic, and socio-demographic factors are all important in explaining reproductive behavior, yet these factors are typically studied in isolation. In this study, we explore an innovative sociogenomic approach, which entails inc…

2017
European journal of human genetics : EJHG ·doi:10.1038/ejhg.2017.105

Previous research has found a genetic component of human reproduction and childlessness. Others have argued that the heritability of reproduction is counterintuitive due to a frequent misinterpretation that additive genetic variance in repr…

2016
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.3698

The genetic architecture of human reproductive behavior-age at first birth (AFB) and number of children ever born (NEB)-has a strong relationship with fitness, human development, infertility and risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, …

2015
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126821

Research on genetic influences on human fertility outcomes such as number of children ever born (NEB) or the age at first childbirth (AFB) has been solely based on twin and family-designs that suffer from problematic assumptions and practic…

2015
Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie ·doi:10.1007/s11577-015-0319-4

The social sciences have been reticent to integrate a biodemographic approach to the study of fertility choice and behaviour, resulting in theories and findings that are largely socially-deterministic. The aim of this paper is to first refl…