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Nature vs. nurture in human sociality: multi-level genomic analyses of social conformity.
Journal of human genetics - 1 May 2018
Chen Biqing, Zhu Zijian, Wang Yingying, Ding Xiaohu, Guo Xiaobo, He Mingguang, Fang Wan, Zhou Qin, Zhou Shanbi, Lei Han, Huang Ailong, Chen Tingmei, Ni Dongsheng, Gu Yuping, Liu Jianing, Rao Yi
Abstract excerpt
Social conformity is fundamental to human societies and has been studied for more than six decades, but our understanding of its mechanisms remains limited. Individual differences in conformity have been attributed to social and cultural environmental influences, but not to genes. Here we demonstrate a genetic contribution to conformity after analyzing 1,140 twins and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based...
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