Article
Molecular genetics and subjective well-being.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jun 2013
Rietveld Cornelius A, Cesarini David, Benjamin Daniel J, Koellinger Philipp D, De Neve Jan-Emmanuel, Tiemeier Henning, Johannesson Magnus, Magnusson Patrik K E, Pedersen Nancy L, Krueger Robert F, Bartels Meike
Abstract excerpt
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a major topic of research across the social sciences. Twin and family studies have found that genetic factors may account for as much as 30-40% of the variance in SWB. Here, we study genetic contributions to SWB in a pooled sample of ≈ 11,500 unrelated, comprehensively-genotyped Swedish and Dutch individuals. We apply a recently developed method to estimate "common narrow...
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