Personality traits are consistently associated with blood mitochondrial DNA copy number estimated from genome sequences in two genetic cohort studies
Richard Oppong, Antonio Terracciano, Martin A. Picard, Yong Qian, Thomas J Butler, Toshiko Tanaka, Ann Zenobia Moore, Eleanor Marie Simonsick, Krista Opsahl-Ong, Christopher E. Coletta, Angelina R. Sutin, Myriam Gorospe, Susan M. Resnick, Francesco Cucca, Sonja W. Scholz, , Jun Ding
This study finds that blood mitochondrial DNA copy number is consistently associated with personality traits and mediates the link between personality and mortality in two genetic cohorts.
eLife · Nov 7, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine