Tal van menselijke eigenschappen hebben een onverwachte relatie met intelligentie. Over individuen zegt dat niets. Maar het levert wel kennis op over de relatie tussen genen en IQ.

New research is challenging assumptions about what determines our personality — and showing that you can change it.

Personality is associated with economic outcomes, but whether these relationships are causal remains unclear. We exploit within-family variation in genetic propensity toward the Big Five generated by ...

Experts build a broader picture of how our genes impact our cognition, after statistically guessing data from UK Biobank participants who did not take a problem-solving test.

This repository contains code and summary statistics used in the article "Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variant...

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.

Applications are invited for a PhD position in Social Science Genetics, a joint appointment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC. Eligible candidates may start their studentship between J...

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