{"id":4395,"date":"2017-10-21T02:47:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T01:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2017-10-21T04:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T03:24:32","slug":"loneliness-is-a-heritable-trait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/loneliness-is-a-heritable-trait\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness is a Heritable Trait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: block; float: left; margin: 8px 8px 8px 8px;\">\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- Content --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8936035152699800\" data-ad-slot=\"4739053971\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A study from\u00a0University of California San Diego School of Medicine confirms loneliness as a life-long trait, not a temporary state. The\u00a0first genome-wide association study says loneliness is an\u00a0accurate predictor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/?s=obesity\">early death than obesity,<\/a> linking it to poor physical and mental health, as well as genetic, though\u00a0environment plays a bigger role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the research\u00a0which was partly funded by National Institutes of Health and published by\u00a0<em>Neuropsychopharmacology:\u00a0<\/em>genetic risk for loneliness is associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/the-role-of-calcium-in-learning-and-memory\/\">neuroticism and depressive symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loneliness does the exact job as physical pain, which alerts and motivates us to take care of our bodies. Loneliness exists\u00a0as a\u00a0biological warning system that alerts\u00a0us of threats to our social bodies &#8211; triggered by lack of answer to individual&#8217;s preferred social relations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class='tm-tweet-clear'><\/div>\n<div class='tm-click-to-tweet'>\n<div class='tm-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Loneliness+is+a+Heritable+Trait&#038;via=PsychDon&#038;related=PsychDon&#038;url=https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/loneliness-is-a-heritable-trait\/' target='_blank'>Loneliness is a Heritable Trait<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Loneliness+is+a+Heritable+Trait&#038;via=PsychDon&#038;related=PsychDon&#038;url=https:\/\/www.psychologyandi.com\/loneliness-is-a-heritable-trait\/' target='_blank' class='tm-ctt-btn'>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='tm-ctt-tip'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abraham Palmer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and vice chair for basic research at UC San Diego School of Medicine, who is also the led researcher, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For two people with the same number of close friends and family, one might see their social structure as adequate while the other doesn&#8217;t. And that&#8217;s what we mean by &#8216;genetic predisposition to loneliness&#8217; &#8212; we want to know why, genetically speaking, one person is more likely than another to feel lonely, even in the same situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier small size studies estimated\u00a0that\u00a037 to 55 percent of loneliness is determined by genetics: tied to specific genes such as\u00a0dopamine and serotonin. In the new study,\u00a0Palmer and team\u00a0examined genetic and health data collected from\u00a010,760 people aged 50 years and older (information covers\u00a0gender, age and marital status) &#8211; provided by\u00a0Health and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonehearthnewsletters.com\/loneliness-is-a-heritable-trait\/human-behavior-loneliness\/\">Retirement Study<\/a>, a longitudinal study of health, retirement and aging sponsored by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[irp posts=&#8221;2027&#8243; name=&#8221;5 Photos Showing Secret Dual Lives of People Living With Mental Illness&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palmer and team found that\u00a0loneliness tends to be co-inherited with neuroticism (long-term negative emotional state) and a scale of depressive symptoms. 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Davis, Vanderbilt University; Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Lide Han, John T Cacioppo. <strong>Genome-Wide Association Study of Loneliness Demonstrates a Role for Common Variation<\/strong> - published in the journal <em>Neuropsychopharmacology.<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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