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Scientists Look for the Genes That Determine Beauty
Attractiveness is well understood to be a benefit in life. Until now, researchers had very little understanding of how physical attractiveness related to genes. This study provides insight into what people view as attractive and what that might say about DNA, but it was limited in size and scope.
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ResearchTrusted Source tells us people who are perceived to be attractive aren’t only more likely to have better jobs and make more money. They’re thought of as having more positive personality attributionsTrusted Source too.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X22000703#!
There is a positive genetic correlation of about 0.1 between height and cognition (Sniekers et al., 2017), indicating that genes associated with increased height are also associated with increased cognition, through pleiotropic effects. As an example, Sniekers et al. (2017) found that the rs2490272 (6q21) gene in an intronic region of FOXO3 has the strongest association with intelligence. This gene is part of the insulin/insulin-like growth factor 1 signaling pathway, which is associated with height.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656618300394
To begin, people with attractive faces are rated more positively than unattractive people for diverse social traits (Eagly et al., 1991, Miller, 1970), including mental health (Martin, Friedmeyer, & Moore, 1977). Indeed, attractiveness and mental health may be correlated. Psychiatric patients tend to be less attractive than controls (Farina et al., 1977, Napoleon et al., 1980); and facial attractiveness may affect psychological well-being and risk of depression (Datta Gupta, Etcoff, & Jaeger, 2016).
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