Personality traits are patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances. Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and associated with mental health. Beside the environment factor, genetic variants can be detected for personality traits. These traits are mainly polygenic. Significant genetic variants are present for most of the behavioral traits. There is a consistency in detection of genetic variants and genomic association for traits derived from pedigree.
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