Scientists Find More Than 1,000 Genetic Variants Linked to Personality

Scientists Find More Than 1,000 Genetic Variants Linked to Personality: More than one million genomes helped identify DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and more. Researchers measured how those traits influenced how people lived. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn Are you naturally anxious? Highly adventurous? More argumentative than you’d like to admit? Those tendencies are often measured through what psychologists call the “Big Five” dimensions of