Huh interesting. I might get myself full genome sequenced at some point. I already got myself 23andme sequenced, downloaded the raw data, and put it into promethease a while ago. I did find out I’m AG at rs53576 which is slightly linked to lower empathy, but is also extremely common. I don’t think this is enough to explain a large proportion of my personality, the way your OXTR deletion might be.
(There was something quite amusing to check my SNPs checking whether to start early anti-balding interventions, and have result number 1 be “Low Empathy”. As a further datapoint, I mentioned this to my mum and she basically said “Yeah but what did you expect with me and [dad] as parents?”)
Seeing this
A few details/examples:
As a child, I had a very noticeable lack of interest in other people (especially those my own age), to the point where a school psychologist thought it was notable.
I remember being unusually eager to go off to overnight summer camp (without my parents), at an age where nobody bothered to provide overnight summer camp because kids that young were almost all too anxious to be away from their parents that long.
When family members or pets died, I’ve generally been noticeably less emotionally impacted than the rest of the family.
When out and about with the family, I’ve always tended to wander around relatively independently of the rest of the group.
Made me think I should take a deeper look. This all sounds pretty familiar, and I don’t think the AG in rs53576 is strong enough to shift me off-distribution to the degree that I am.
Huh interesting. I might get myself full genome sequenced at some point. I already got myself 23andme sequenced, downloaded the raw data, and put it into promethease a while ago. I did find out I’m AG at rs53576 which is slightly linked to lower empathy, but is also extremely common. I don’t think this is enough to explain a large proportion of my personality, the way your OXTR deletion might be.
(There was something quite amusing to check my SNPs checking whether to start early anti-balding interventions, and have result number 1 be “Low Empathy”. As a further datapoint, I mentioned this to my mum and she basically said “Yeah but what did you expect with me and [dad] as parents?”)
Seeing this
Made me think I should take a deeper look. This all sounds pretty familiar, and I don’t think the AG in rs53576 is strong enough to shift me off-distribution to the degree that I am.