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Monday, June 6, 2011

Mind:  Genes and Social Networks: New Research Links Genes to Friendship Networks

James [Fowler] and his colleagues Jaime Settle and Nicholas Christakis demonstrate that there is what they call "genotypic clustering in social networks", by statistically examining the association between markers for six different genes and the reported friendship networks from respondents in data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Framingham Heart Study Social Network. They show that one of these genes (DRD2) is positively associated with in friendship networks, meaning that those who have this gene are more likely to be friends with others who have this gene, controlling for demographic similarities and population stratification; another gene, CYP2A6 has a negative association in friendship networks.

From Genes and Social Networks: New Research Links Genes to Friendship Networks by R. Michael Alvarez, February 14, 2011 at Psychology Today.

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