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Genes play a greater role in determining key personality traits like social skills and learning ability than the way we are brought up by our parents, researchers claimed.
研究人员表明，在决定诸如社交技能和学习能力的关键性格特征方面，与父母的养育方式相比较，基因扮演着更为重要的角色。
Researchers from Edinburgh University studied more than 800 sets of identical and non-identical twins to learn whether genetics or upbringing has a greater effect on how successful people are in life.
爱丁堡大学的研究人员以800多对同卵双胞胎和异卵双胞胎为对象，研究了成功的人生究竟是受遗传的影响更大还是受成长的影响更大。
Participants were asked a series of questions about how they perceive themselves and others, such as "are you influenced by people with strong opinions?"
受试者需要回答一系列的问题，都是关于他们如何看待自己和他人的，比如“你是否会受到有强烈意见的人的影响”。
Writing in the Journal of Personality, the researchers found that identical twins were twice as likely as non-identical twins to share the same personality traits, suggesting that their DNA was having the greatest impact.
正如《人格期刊》所写，研究人员发现，同卵双胞胎拥有相同性格特征的可能性是异卵双胞胎的两倍，表明他们的DNA(在决定性格特征上)起到了最重要的作用。
Genetics were most influential on people's sense of self-control and also affected their social and learning abilities and their sense of purpose.
人们在自我控制方面、社交和学习能力方面以及使命感上，遗传是最具影响力的因素。
Prof Timothy Bates, who led the study, said: "Previously, the role of family and the environment a...