{"id":168180,"date":"2023-07-23T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/social-genetic-effects-study-suggests-your-romantic-partners-dna-can-influence-your-own-health-behaviors"},"modified":"2023-07-23T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T03:22:23","slug":"social-genetic-effects-study-suggests-your-romantic-partners-dna-can-influence-your-own-health-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/social-genetic-effects-study-suggests-your-romantic-partners-dna-can-influence-your-own-health-behaviors","title":{"rendered":"Social genetic effects: Study suggests your romantic partner\u2019s DNA can influence your own health behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/social-genetic-effects-study-suggests-your-romantic-partners-dna-can-influence-your-own-health-behaviors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research provides evidence that an individual\u2019s health behaviors and outcomes are influenced by the genetic makeup of their romantic partner. The findings, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10519-023-10147-w\"><em>Behavior Genetics<\/em><\/a>, indicate that your partner\u2019s genetic tendencies can lead to changes in your own weight, smoking habits, or alcohol consumption over time.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers conducted this study to investigate how a person\u2019s partner can affect their health. They aimed to explore the concept of social genetic effects, which refers to the impact of genetic factors in one person\u2019s environment, such as their partner\u2019s genotype, on their own phenotype (observable characteristics or traits).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was mainly interested in exploring the combination of social science and genetics,\u201d explained study author Kasper Otten of Utrecht University. \u201cIt is evident that behavior is partly genetically influenced, but much of the social sciences does not deal with this biological fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research provides evidence that an individual\u2019s health behaviors and outcomes are influenced by the genetic makeup of their romantic partner. The findings, published in Behavior Genetics, indicate that your partner\u2019s genetic tendencies can lead to changes in your own weight, smoking habits, or alcohol consumption over time. The researchers conducted this study to investigate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}