Chunk #29 — Methods — Testing the effect of inbreeding on personality traits

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Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding.

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To test whether inbreeding influenced the personality traits we obtained an index of the level of inbreeding in each individual's ancestry based on their SNP data, and then tested if this coefficient was correlated with the personality scale scores.