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

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Published in Transl Psychiatry on July 14, 2015

Authors

R A Power1, M Pluess2

Author Affiliations

1: MRC Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
2: Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

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