Spouses’ personalities and marital satisfaction in Chinese families by Li Jia, Li Jia, Gerrit Antonides, Zhuomin Liu

“…IntroductionConsidering the traditional Confucian values prevalent in Chinese society, we study the effects of the spouses’ personalities and household sociodemographic circumstances on the marital satisfaction of marriage partners.MethodsWe evaluate the factors that contribute to marital satisfaction, using the 2018 wave of the Chinese Family Panel Survey, including 6,603 households. …”
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The ILE462VAL polymorphism of the cytochrome P450 CYP1A1 gene among Tundra Nenets in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nganasans in the Taimyr Peninsula and Russians in Siberia by R. P. Tiis, L. P. Osipova, T. V. Churkina, L. E. Tabikhanova, D. V. Lichman, E. N. Voronina, M. L. Filipenko

“…Frequencies of the  462Val variant close to that in Nganasans have been observed in Greenland Inuits, native Americans as a whole and the Southern Chinese. A high-frequency occurrence of the 462Val allele among Tundra Nenets and Nganasans may be indicative of a populationwide risk of diseases influenced by this genetic polymorphism, especially when traditional mainstays are gone or previously unknown ecotoxicants appear in the areas.…”
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