GWAS / Trait Ideas Brainstorm (Session A)

Ability to whistle

CKD

Autoimmune diseases

aphantasia

Mania

loneliness

Imposter phenomenon

Serious answer: cannabis subjective response
Not so serious: toddler sleep

Musicality

Siesta

Ability to taste different flavors in chocolate

The ability to hold harmony (Harmonize)

Synaesthesia

Something related to music, maybe singing

The urge to share (Mitteilungsbedürfnis)

political affiliation

social network depth

mindfulness or wisdom

ability to do a gwas

Cat or dog person

central nervous system pain amplification
GWAS on negative sysmtoms in scz (anhedonia)

Being good in sports

hba1c

anxiety

I would like to do a GWAS on treatment response in psoriatic arthritis

Preference on runny eggs

Beer vs cider drinkers (in the UK this would have a strong geog relationship)

twin behaviour

I would run the GWAS on symptoms of hormoone sensitivity phenotypes for example symptoms of PMS

parent-child relationship quality
Will to win/resilience

Ultraprocess food consumption

preference for different beans of coffee

Propensión to Magic thinking

Long distance running

Vaspin marker

Replying to “political affiliation”:

actually not heritable :slightly_frowning_face: but the strength of political interest is

what about something more like social dominance orientation?

I would guess so - strength of feeling is usually heritable, but preference/flavour type variables are usually cultural/C

Replying to “Preference on runny eggs”:

This makes me think about how I’m terrified of raw chicken

got to go with the hard yolk on this one

SAMMMEEE

Replying to “Will to win/resilience”:

I’m also interested in resilience (ability to adapt after stress/adversity). Curious bout how would you define resilience? I think there has been two small GWAS studies on resilience published.

Yes! There are a few but very difficult to measure

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02688-1

reslience of Phd students and postdocs in academia