No association between genetic variants in MAOA, OXTR, and AVPR1a and cooperative strategies.

ABSTRACT: The effort to understand the genetic basis of human sociality has been encouraged by the diversity and heritability of social traits like cooperation. This task has remained elusive largely because most studies of sociality and genetics use sample sizes that are often unable to detect the small effects that single genes may have on complex social behaviors. The lack of robust findings could also be a consequence of a poor characterization of social phenotypes. Here, we explore the latter possibility by testing whether refining measures of cooperative phenotypes can increase the replication of previously reported associations between genetic variants and cooperation in small samples. Unlike most previous studies of sociality and genetics, we characterize cooperative phenotypes based on stra

SUBMITTER: Rivera-Hechem MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7757875 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature