In gesprek met documentairemaker Joe Hammond en geneticus Abdel Abdellaoui over de documentaire De dode junk in mij.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 21 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02551-zA genome-wide meta-regression analysis of social behaviour studying ~500,000 observations from ~70,000 individuals, modelling context-specific SNP variation as explained by social domains, informants and age, identified six associated loci.

More than one million genomes helped identify DNA variants linked to extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism and more. Researchers measured how those traits influenced how people lived.

Researchers identify more than 1,200 personality-linked genetic variants, with effects largely independent of family background.

The genetic architecture of personality is robustly generalizable, minimally confounded and widely relevant to human experience.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02556-8Reconstructing parental haplotypes for up to 440,209 UK and Estonian Biobank participants, the authors estimate genetic assortative mating across 69 traits and find that assortment for height and education has intensified in recent generations.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 18 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02555-9We developed a method that detects the genetic footprint of partner choice without requiring the input of partners’ genotypes. Instead, it reconstructs maternal and paternal genomes within a single individual, capturing half of each parental genome. Applied to nearly half a million people in the UK and Estonia, our method reveals partner similarity that has intensified for height and educational attainment over the past six decades.

An emerging market promotes embryo selection for behavioural traits including IQ, but the response of the social and behavioural genetic research community remains muted. We call for unified best prac...

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02491-8Associations between polygenic indices and cognitive ability in children increase with age while rare damaging variant associations attenuate, with differential effects across the cognitive ability distribution.

New study uncovers how genetics influence children’s cognitive ability as they age.

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Een dna-test leidt tot een persoonlijke zoektocht én een groter verhaal: het structureel falen en gebrekkig toezicht in de Nederlandse fertiliteitssector.

Nature Human Behaviour - Abdellaoui et al. synthesize genomic evidence on the link between socio-economic status and heredity. They show how social stratification may create selection pressures,...

Can society shape the human genome? What happens when people move to opportunity? Why do genes associated with educational attainment cluster geographically? And what happens to the gene pool when edu...

While some people actively play instruments, most primarily engage with music through listening. Although intervention studies consistently report pos…

Nature Human Behaviour - Scientific figures strongly influence how research findings are interpreted, yet guidance on figure design has largely focused on technical aspects of visualization. In...

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