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-This is a branch of SNIPar created to enable replication of the methods employed in EA4 (Okbay et al., Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals) for computing direct and population effects of the polygenic indices (PGIs), and for analysis of assortative mating using PGIs. 
+This is a branch of snipar was created to enable replication of the methods employed in EA4 (Okbay et al., Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals) for computing direct and population effects of the polygenic indices (PGIs), and for analysis of assortative mating using PGIs. 
 
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