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A genome-wide linkage study of individuals with high scores on NEO personality traits.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Oct 2012
Amin N, Schuur M, Gusareva E S, Isaacs A, Aulchenko Y S, Kirichenko A V, Zorkoltseva I V, Axenovich T I, Oostra B A, Janssens A C J W, van Duijn C M
Abstract excerpt
The NEO-Five-Factor Inventory divides human personality traits into five dimensions: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness. In this study, we sought to identify regions harboring genes with large effects on the five NEO personality traits by performing genome-wide linkage analysis of individuals scoring in the extremes of these traits (>90th percentile). Affected-only linkage...
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