They found the dancer gene!

[flameinbloom]

No seriously.

Apparently, I have an awesome serotonin transporter and arginine vasopressin receptor 1a. Which means that, opposed to other people (including athletes), I am of the dancer "type" which is: 

"a heightened sense of communication, often of a symbolic and ceremonial nature, and a strong spiritual personality trait."

That doesn't sound like me at all. ;)

Though I'm curious about how they tested dancers against athletes. I would like to see a comparison with dancers and other artists, who I think we'd actually have more in common with than athletes.

Comments

[flameinbloom]

I guess. Honestly, I don't really buy it all that much. I mean, the description of the dancer type very distinctly describes the people I have met through dancing. On the other hand, I have an identical twin who hates dancing...

She's not really all that spiritual either, but we're identical twins, so we presumably have identical genetic makeups.

As I said, I would really like to see it compared with other artists and/or other spiritually type groups (especially musicians). Because a big part of me thinks that I am a dancer because it was the first kind of art I got into. I could just as easily have seen myself develop into a poet if that was where I had spent all my time. I think saying that we have a type of personality based on a gene that improves nerve communication is probably a little iffy sounding, and I wonder how much of the "type" is because of the gene and how much of it is because the gene allows us to get really into dance, which opens us up to the spirituality instead of the gene causing the spirituality. That would make sense to me given my twin situation. She also has really good body intelligence, but isn't into dancing and consequently isn't as spiritual, maybe.

[travelyggdrasil]

I certainly am not into what I first got into. I am into everything I have ever gotten into, and it's kind of takes a bit out of my sanity. I love dancing, I love singing, I love drawing, I love sculpture and many other forms of art, I love cooking and creating in the kitchen. I love a lot of other things too, haha.

My problem is I has too many things I am passionate about, yet my "career" doesn't include anything remotely like anything I am passionate about... Which is likely why I hate it so much, but I have so many things I am good at, but nothing that Iam GREAT at or that I love more than the other, so it has been ridiculously hard for me to pick one to work at being great at and make it my career...

I wonder what genes I ended up with?