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18 - Genetics of Personality

from Part IV - Biological Perspectives: Evolution, Genetics and Neuroscience of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Hannah M. Sallis ,
George Davey Smith  and
Marcus R. Munafò
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Despite the early promise of behavioral genetic research, efforts to disentangle the genetic contribution to individual differences in behavior (e.g., personality traits) have been slow. Early studies relied on a candidate gene approach to identify genes influencing these traits; however, many of these failed to replicate, despite having a plausible biological mechanism. More recent studies have used whole genome approaches to investigate the genetic architecture of behavioral traits. However, unlike many other complex traits such as height (Marouli et al., 2017; Wood et al., 2014) and schizophrenia (Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2014), relatively few genetic variants have been identified which are robustly associated with temperament and individual differences in personality.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 247 - 258
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Print publication year: 2020

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Save book to Google Drive

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