Heritability estimates of the Big Five personality traits based on common genetic variants

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Power, R A ^a   Pluess, M ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS FOR EXPERIENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TWIN STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PERSONALITY TEST;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84990996880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.96     Document Type: Article

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