A personality is a mixture of traits that define ones individual personality. Examples of this include, impulsiveness, openness, intelligence, etc. These traits are tools, which are used by individuals to navigate social situations. Dr. Dean Hamer is a molecular psychologist and he is exploring the roll that genes play in a human personality. He said until recently, research into behavior genetics was based on a study of identical twins. This study was based on the …showed first 75 words of 1770 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1770 total…gene or genes at Xq28 related to male sexual orientation. What still is needed is corroboration from other laboratories. That hasn’t happened yet, and the progress is depressingly slow. Four years after our results were published, no other group has published a single scientific manuscript on this topic. If we had discovered a gene for something less controversial, say diabetes or schizophrenia, scientists would have been fighting to replicate it, or shoot it down.