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Genetic associations with the Big Five personality traits probed in one million people
Nature, Published online: 09 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02790-0 Human DNA has been linked to personality traits — how individuals think, feel and act — thus identifying hundreds of genetic variants that contribute to the…
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