Month: November 2022

I share studies on how heritable your body weight is, and share a pretty wild list of traits you’d never expect to be just as or more heritable than your weight.

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Links mentioned in the video:

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• Key study links:
  • Human Obesity: A Heritable Neurobehavioral Disorder That Is Highly Sensitive to Environmental Conditions
  • Happiness: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-and-genomewide-linkage-scan-of-subjective-happiness/71536537CBD1619EA68A6E98919532B6
  • Interests: http://psych.colorado.edu/~carey/Courses/PSYC5112/Readings/interests_lykken.pdf
  • Income: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2253264
  • Talent: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-009-9260-5
  • Educational attainment: https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/92/1/109/2235872
  • Dog ownership https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44083-9?fbclid=IwAR2b-rqBWIjX9UB76jvDKvYCCLXAkFg6wNREFgDPaVvFTC408i7BptAl-HU
  • Partisan attachment https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912908327607?casa_token=o0sdCet0z_MAAAAA:TD2f0L73lZKxR9C3Liz5d_Y2FsIGfSPkKg6n8SjtbsU_XDNlQXJDMLli8CgmiC51Amsnb_56ry85
  • Career https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0001879191900057
  • Choice of subject in college https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26373
  • DUIs https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-of-dui-convictions-a-twin-study-of-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol/F579DA58BFAA1A00531A94288F5CDCB3
  • How much people text https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-human-genetics/article/heritability-and-genetic-correlates-of-mobile-phone-use-a-twin-study-of-consumer-behavior/56022F02DE9EDBE7A79607E719B652DC
  • Sickness absences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811300125X?casa_token=z57IjWzwlXwAAAAA:6mcnBONEDK7AkahDfGlFLstfiSBrjnVQ8IS84f_Fo_5NlOP2cst4lOu_JRjo_58SEuJBAfYV1A
  • (you can find the other auxiliary study links by searching the titles that are shown in the video)