Research Hit: Your Personality Influences Your Genes — and You May be Able to Control This

An AI tool has identified key hubs of genes that alter their expression to personality but also that some of these may be able to be consciously modified through self-awareness!

Isn’t it the other way around — that genes influence (or define) our personality?!

Yes, that would be logical and what most of us would assume. And most scientists have also thought — until now, that is!

What’s more the insights here could be pretty groundbreaking because of the nature of the identified networks, this could be open to actively changing this ourselves.

Oh, tell me more!

Well, Coral del Val et al. of the University of Granada used a genomic expression dataset of 459 adults and set AI to work on it trying to scour the millions and millions of pieces of data and find useful patterns.

There has been work done on personality and genes and hence the hereditariness of certain personality traits but no work to date on how personality could influence genetic expression. Genetic expression refers to how genes activate or deactivate.