It’s common to think that your genes determine your personality, but new research shows how the opposite can actually occur, especially for creativity and self-awareness.
New research on personality genes show how complex genomic-based networks can shape life experiences.. You may engage in this debate in a playful manner with your relatives as you try to figure out whether ahas the same “stubbornness” as the parent or where a cousin’s high-strung qualities can be directly attributed to living with their equallyWhat you might not realize is that there are approaches to understanding this complex genes-environment equation that flip things around entirely.
In the remainder of their paper, the authors use methods from what they describe as the “post-genomic revolution” in which epigenetics became the name of the game, to a data set based on a genetic and personality study of 459 Finnish adults. Defining personality as the way you shape and adapt to change , three systems of learning and
Participants in the Finnish study completed a measure of temperament and character and provided blood samples for genetic analysis. The research team applied findings from their previous work on other samples to derive the genetic profiles associated with the three personality systems. Then they related these profiles to a variety of measures of well-being, social values, and functional connectivity within the brain, an indication of its efficiency.
The idea that your personality is expressed in so many genes probably makes sense and fits with what the authors noted, the “phenotype as complex as human personality.” You may be able to relate to this idea, too, if you’ve ever taken one of the personality tests offered through commercial DNA databases such as Ancestry.com. Your personality may be identified as an, and even though you may not agree with the assessment, you can see that there is interest in mapping personality genes.
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