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
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Ted Schwaba, Lindsay S. Ackerman & Josephine C. M. Fealy Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States Margaret L. Clapp Sullivan Department of Biological Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wonuola A. Akingbuwa, Eco J. C. de
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Specific genetic variants can be linked to a particular condition by analyzing the genomes of large groups of people with and without the disorder.Credit: Gregory Adams/Getty Researchers have identified the first evidence of genetic risk factors associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The analysis, published in Nature genetics July 201is the largest genome-wide association study