Personality traits and psychiatric disorders linked to specific genomic locations

Researchers at NORMENT and University of California San Diego (UCSD) have found a link between six different gene variants and certain personality traits. Further, specific gene variants seem to influence both personality traits and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The results are published in Nature Genetics.

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Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders

Min-Tzu Lo, David A Hinds, Joyce Y Tung, Carol Franz, Chun-Chieh Fan, Yunpeng Wang, Olav B Smeland, Andrew Schork, Dominic Holland, Karolina Kauppi, Nilotpal Sanyal, Valentina Escott-Price, Daniel J Smith, Michael O'Donovan, Hreinn Stefansson, Gyda Bjornsdottir, Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson, Kari Stefansson, Linda K McEvoy, Anders M Dale, Ole A Andreassen & Chi-Hua Chen

Nature Genetics, 2016 Dec 5, doi: 10.1038/ng.3736. [Pubmed]

Published Dec. 30, 2016 1:19 PM - Last modified Mar. 25, 2021 3:33 PM