Abstract:Various personality traits are known to correlate with body mass index (BMI). However, rarely have studies looked beyond BMI to understand how adiposity and other metabolic characteristics relate to psychological traits. We explored personality traits’ phenotypic and genetic associations with basal metabolic rate (BMR) and an improved index of adiposity—relative fat mass (RFM)—and assessed how personality traits’ associations with RFM differ from their associations with BMI. In a subsample of the Estonian Biob… Show more
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