ArticleTranslational psychiatry2018
Genome-wide analyses of self-reported empathy: correlations with autism, schizophrenia, and anorexia nervosa.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 137 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of research on empathy in health care.Health services research · 2023Pooled it
- Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
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- Assessing self-reported empathy among chiropractic students at a South African university.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2026Article
- Ancient regulatory evolution shapes individual language abilities in present-day humans.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Empathy levels among health sciences professors in Latin America: distribution, classification and gender differences.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- The Hidden Spectrum Within Eating Disorders: Clustering Neurodivergent Traits and Sensory Sensitivity.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Categorical misalignment: Making autism(s) in big data biobanking.Social studies of science · 2025Article
- Cognitive and emotional processing in brothers of individuals with anorexia nervosa: exploring familial cognitive vulnerability.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Genetic variations as predictors of dispositional and dyadic empathy-a couple study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Moral foundations in autistic people and people with systemizing minds.Molecular autism · 2024Article
- The effect of conversation on altruism: A comparative study with different media and generations.PloS one · 2024Article
- Vicarious Emotions of Fear and Pain in Rodents.Affective science · 2023Review
- Transmission disequilibrium analysis of whole genome data in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus.Genes and immunity · 2023Article
- The relationship of trait-like compassion with epigenetic aging: The population-based prospective Young Finns Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence.PloS one · 2023Article
- The role of executive functions, social cognition and intelligence in predicting social adaptation of vulnerable populations.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Understanding of empathetic communication in acute hospital settings: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Clinical autism subscales have common genetic liabilities that are heritable, pleiotropic, and generalizable to the general population.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Empathy is the ability to recognize and respond to the emotional states of other individuals. It is an important psychological process that facilitates navigating social interactions and maintaining relationships, which are important for well-being. Several psychological studies have identified difficulties in both self-report and performance-based measures of empathy in a range of psychiatric conditions. To date, no study has systematically investigated the genetic architecture of empathy using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we report the results of the largest GWAS of empathy to date using a well-validated self-report measure of empathy, the Empathy Quotient (EQ), in 46,861 research participants from 23andMe, Inc. We identify 11 suggestive loci (P < 1 × 10
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