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Genetics of Personality Molecular Psychiatry (2003) 8, 840–852 & 2003 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 1359-4184/03 $25.00 www.nature.com/mp FEATURE ARTICLE Genetics of personality: are we making progress? S Van Gestel1 and C Van Broeckhoven1 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB8), University of Antwerp (UIA), Antwerpen, Belgium For centuries, scientists are intrigued by the differences in personality between individuals. As early as in the ancient Greek civilization, people tried to formulate theories to systematize this diversity. With the increased interest in behavior genetics, personality was also considered a challenging phenotype. From the early start, studies suggested a heritable component in personality. After the successes of molecular genetic studies in unraveling the genetic basis of (mostly) monogenic diseases, the focus shifted towards complex traits, including psychiatric disorders. It was observed in several studies that personality measures differed between patients with psychiatric disorders and healthy controls. Therefore, normal personality was considered a viable endophenotype in the search for genes involved in psychiatric disorders such as affective disorders, ADHD and substance dependence. Genes that were to be found in studies on personality could be candidate genes for particular psychiatric disorders. In the course of time, however the study of genes for personality turned out to be at least as hard as the search for genes involved in other complex disorders. In this review, past studies, present problems and future directions concerning the study of personality genetics are discussed. Molecular Psychiatry (2003) 8, 840–852. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001367 Keywords: personality; temperament; character; genetics; candidate genes; polymorphisms; susceptibility Different people have different personalities. Over of personality, building upon existing literature time, multiple theories and concepts of personality concerning personality and temperament. The initial have been formulated.1–4 The so-called trait psychol- model defined personality as consisting of three ogists conceptualize personality as encompassing temperament traits: novelty seeking (NS), harm different traits. Eysenck5 postulated the existence of avoidance (HA) and reward dependence (RD).10 Later, the following three traits: psychoticism, extraversion a fourth temperament dimension, persistence (P), and and neuroticism, which can be measured with the three character traitsFself-directedness (SD), coop- Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ).6 Cattell et erativeness (C) and self-transcendence (ST)Fwere al7 used a lexical approach by looking for clusters of included.11 Temperament traits refer to basic emo- traits in the adjectives people use to describe an tional response patterns and are assumed to be individual’s personality and found 16 factors, which heritable and manifesting early in life. Character can be measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor traits are hypothesized to be voluntary goals and Questionnaire (16PF). Using the same method, sev- values, acquired during development and influenced eral researchers reached consensus on a model with by sociocultural learning. In the biological part of the five traits. Different descriptions of these five traits model, the authors postulated that NS is influenced exist,8 but the most widely used terminology was set by dopamines, that HA is related to the serotonin by Costa and McCrae,9 who designated them as system and that RD is under the influence of the neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, open- noradrenergic system.10 The Tridimensional Person- ness and agreeableness. A questionnaire designed to ality Questionnaire (TPQ)12 is a self-report question- measure these big 5 is the NEO Personality Inventory naire designed to measure the original three (NEO-PI) and its derivatives, such as the NEO-PI-R temperament dimensions. Later, the Temperament and NEO-FFI.9 and Character Inventory (TCI)13 was constructed to In a somewhat different line of research, Cloninger measure the seven dimensions from the complete and colleagues developed the psychobiological model psychobiological model. Adoption, twin and family studies have demon- strated the importance of genetic influences on Correspondence: Professor Dr Christine Van Broeckhoven, PhD, personality. In an early study using 137 young twin DSc, Department of Molecular Genetics, Neurogenetics Group, pairs, the parents rated personality. The average University of Antwerp (UIA), Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 correlation of 11 personality scales was 0.55 for Antwerpen, Belgium. E-mail: [email protected] Received 7 February 2003; revised 11 April 2003; accepted 16 monozygotic (MZ) and À0.07 for dizygotic (DZ) April 2003 twins.14 The fact that the DZ correlation was less Genetics of personality: are we making progress? S Van Gestel and C Van Broeckhoven 841 than half of the MZ correlation was later explained by genes from these three specific neurotransmitter referring to contrast effects, by which parents tend to pathways. exaggerate the differences between DZ twins.15 Most of the studies on personality did not rely on parent Dopamine ratings, but on data from self-report questionnaires. In The first and most frequently examined polymorph- a large study on personality and social attitudes ism until now in personality studies is the 48-bp including more than 14 000 twins and their relatives, VNTR in exon 3 of the dopamine D4 receptor gene both additive and dominant genetic effects were (DRD4).21 The first reports of a possible association of observed.16 The effect of the family environment, this particular polymorphism with the trait of NS including vertical cultural transmission was much were published in 1996. Two groups reported a less marked. The same picture emerged from a review positive association of the 7-repeat allele of the 48- of the genetics of personality, in which the authors bp VNTR with NS. One study included 124 Jewish stated that there is a substantial genetic contribution healthy volunteers22 and used TPQ to measure to individual differences in personality as measured personality. The other study23 examined American by self-report questionnaires.17 The heritability esti- Caucasian volunteers, in which personality was mates ranged between 0.40 and 0.60, of which part assessed by the NEO-PI-R. TPQ NS scores were was nonadditive. Furthermore, they stated that there estimated from the scores calculated with the NEO- is no contribution of shared environment, but that a PI-R inventory. Both studies detected an association large part of the variance is attributable to nonshared of the 7-repeat allele with high NS, of which the effect environment and measurement error. accounted for 3–4% of the total variance. Some In family studies, the heritability estimates for studies replicated the association,24–28 while in others personality traits reached 0.30,17,18 which is some- no effect could be demonstrated, neither in healthy what lower than the estimates from twin studies. A individuals29–43 nor in patient populations.30,44–48 In a possible explanation for this difference in heritability linkage study using families of alcoholics, the estimates depending on the study design could be dimension of HA and not NS was linked to DRD4.49 nonadditive genetic factors that play a role in Some studies showed association between DRD4 personality. A nonadditive genetic effect such as and NS in the opposite direction. In a study using dominance can only be measured in sibs sharing extremely high and low scoring groups of individuals, two alleles identical by descent (IBD) at a certain the 2- and 5-repeat alleles, and not the 7-repeat allele, locus, being all MZ twins and 25% of the DZ twins were more frequent in the group of high NS and ordinary sib pairs. Therefore, in twin studies the individuals.50 In two other studies, lower NS was chances of detecting the dominance genetic compo- associated with the 7-repeat allele: one was a study in nent are higher than in family studies. Another a group of alcoholic offenders,29 the other in a group explanation might be found in one of the basic of substance-dependent African Americans.30 assumptions made in twin studies, known as ‘equal Not only in adults, but also in newborns, the environments’, in which it is stated that shared association between DRD4 and NS was tested. A environments of MZ and DZ twins are not different.19 group of neonates was tested at 2 weeks, 2 and 12 If, however, MZ twins were treated more alike than months of age, and associations between DRD4 and DZ twins because of their greater similarity, this different measures of activity and NS were ob- would result in an overestimation of the heritability. served.51–53 A combined effect of the DRD4 48-bp However, in a study by Plomin et al,20 it was noted VNTR and a polymorphism in the serotonin trans- that the greater resemblance in appearance of MZ porter gene (5-HTT) was reported on infants’ response compared to DZ twins did not result in more similar to novelty at 12 months of age.54 In two recent meta- personality scores, as rated by the mother of the analyses, the association between the DRD4 VNTR twins. To the contrary, the evidence even pointed in polymorphism and NS could not be confirmed.55,56 the direction of contrast effects, which would lead to Table 1 overviews the studies on the DRD4 VNTR and an underestimation of the heritability. NS with details on the study design. Other studies investigated the association of NS with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at Molecular genetics of personality position À521 in the promoter region of DRD4. Again, Candidate gene studies some observed an association,57,58 while others did A frequently used design in molecular genetic studies not.40,42,43,59 A meta-analysis supported the associa- of personality is the candidate gene approach. Since tion between NS and the –521 C/T polymorphism.56 processes in brain were assumed to regulate person- The DRD4 polymorphisms were also studied in ality, genes involved in neurotransmitter pathways relation to the trait of extraversion.
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