Anxious or outgoing? Huge study links ‘Big Five’ personality traits to genetic variants0

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• September 3, 2026

Personality plays into how people think, feel, behave and interact with their environment.Credit: PeopleImages/Getty A study of more than one million people has uncovered around 1,200 genetic variants that are associated with personality traits, and is by far the largest effort of its kind. The researchers found that common genetic variants account for a small