July 7, 2029—A variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is associated with increased risk for being an annoying person, according to an international study. The research adds to evidence that gene plays a key role in making a person a pain in the neck.
Jean Nome, Ph.D., associate professor of popularity health at Oxford University, helped direct the international study, which involved 34 research institutions. Dr. Nome and her U.S. and European colleagues found that people who have inherited the gene variant NYNG3 have a 15-20 percent increased risk of being exasperating and repugnant compared with people who do not have the variant.
The researchers examined data from eight studies involving genes and personality. These studies included more than 31,000 people ages 25 to 76, representing a broad range of personality types.
After analyzing more than 1.5 million regions of the human genome, the researchers found that the NYNG3 gene variant—previously associated with aggression, social ineptitude and offensiveness—also predicts the tendency to become simply unlikeable. Altogether, researchers found the gene variant in 20 percent of the people studied.
“This is a significant breakthrough, “Nome said in a press release. “Hopefully this will lead to treatments for such maladies as insufferable personality disorder and clinical creepiness.”
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What happens if the ‘undesireables’ are the ones wielding the genetic tools? mmmm