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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

GWAS for behavioral traits in golden retrievers identifies genes implicated in human temperament, mental health, and cognition.

Enoch Alex, Paul Gennotte, Anna Morros Nuevo, Yunzhu Yu, Benjamin Keep, Megan Sullivan, Daniel Mills, Varun Warrier, Eleanor Raffan

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Genomic ancestry, behavior, and the domestication of the dog.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Enoch AlexDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4217-6322
Paul GennotteDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0006-6033-045X
Anna Morros NuevoDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0007-0309-3811
Yunzhu YuDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0009-0003-2749-0820
Benjamin KeepDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6465-3882
Megan SullivanDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4765-9625
Daniel MillsDepartment of Biological and Life Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, United Kingdom.
Varun WarrierDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4532-8571
Eleanor RaffanDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1403-3538

Funding

Cambridge Trust and Jameel Education Foundation Scholarship NONEMorris Animal Foundation (MAF) D22CA-406MRC AND UKRI NONEWellcome TrustWellcome Trust (WT) 214322\Z\18\Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dogs display temperamental and behavioral variation between individuals, just as psychiatric, temperamental, and cognitive traits vary in humans. In both species, these traits are highly heritable, yet causal genes remain incompletely understood. We performed 14 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for behavioral traits quantified using the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ) in ~1,000 golden retrievers, identifying 12 genome-wide significant loci (

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CognitionGenome-Wide Association StudyMental HealthTemperamentAnimalsBehavior, AnimalDogsFemaleHumansMalePhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotidebehaviourC-BARQdoggeneticspsychiatric

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PMID41284867
PMCPMC12684936

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