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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychol. 2010 Aug 4;85(2):306–317. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.07.018

Table 3.

Top five genes showing strongest association with each personality scale.

Chromosome Gene Start position End position Number of SNPs in gene P-value
Harm Avoidance
3 SLC7A14 171660035 171786557 66 7.8 * 10−5
19 TBC1D17 55072640 55083813 5 1.0 * 10−4
10 C10orf128 50033896 50066413 88 1.1 * 10−4
2 AAK1 69538630 69724481 89 1.3 * 10−4
21 SON 33837219 33871682 19 1.4 * 10−4
Novelty Seeking
1 FLG2a 150587836 150599106 55 4.0 * 10−6
1 FLGa 150541274 150564303 33 4.0 * 10−6
12 MSRB3 63958754 64146954 75 3.5 * 10−5
1 CRNNa 150648342 150653352 98 4.4 * 10−5
1 RBM8A 144218994 144222801 15 8.3 * 10−5
Reward Dependence
4 SLIT2 19864332 20229886 154 2.8 * 10−5
1 FAM5B 175407255 175518181 76 4.7 * 10−5
11 TMPRSS13 117276569 117305325 43 7.9 * 10−5
13 MYCBP2 76516792 76799178 133 9.0 * 10−5
11 PRRG4 32808064 32832681 86 1.0 * 10−4
Persistence
18 KIAA0427 44319424 44643582 126 2.0*10−6
12 BEST3 68333655 68379463 174 4.5 * 10−5
5 AHRR 357290 491405 80 5.2 * 10−5
3 LOC730754 102777969 102778525 49 5.5 * 10−5
11 CAT 34417053 34450183 176 5.7 * 10−5
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Gene boundaries of these genes are overlapping - SNPs can be allocated to multiple genes, so the same SNPs could be driving the signal in the different genes.