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SUBMITTER: Rietveld CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3683731 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rietveld Cornelius A CA Cesarini David D Benjamin Daniel J DJ Koellinger Philipp D PD De Neve Jan-Emmanuel JE Tiemeier Henning H Johannesson Magnus M Magnusson Patrik K E PK Pedersen Nancy L NL Krueger Robert F RF Bartels Meike M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130524 24
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a major topic of research across the social sciences. Twin and family studies have found that genetic factors may account for as much as 30-40% of the variance in SWB. Here, we study genetic contributions to SWB in a pooled sample of ≈ 11,500 unrelated, comprehensively-genotyped Swedish and Dutch individuals. We apply a recently developed method to estimate "common narrow heritability": the fraction of variance in SWB that can be explained by the cumulative additiv ...[more]