The influence of RhD phenotype on toxoplasmosis- and age-associated changes in personality profile of blood donors

Title:

The influence of RhD phenotype on toxoplasmosis- and age-associated changes in personality profile of blood donors

Creator:

Flegr, Jaroslav, Novotná, Martina, Fialová, Anna, Kolbeková, Petra, and Gašová, Zdeňka

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:7412caf5-27de-4364-ab93-d320a4ce944e
uuid:7412caf5-27de-4364-ab93-d320a4ce944e
doi:10.14411/fp.2010.018

Subject:

parasite, manipulation, personality, blood group, Rh factor, Cattell 16PF, Cloninger TCI, Rhesus factor, aging, and senescence

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite infecting 20-60% of humans in various countries, influences the behaviour of infected animal and human hosts. Infected human subjects have changes in several of Cattell's and Cloninger's personality factors. Recently, three independent studies have shown that Rh-positive subjects are protected against the T. gondii-induced changes of reaction times and increased risk of traffic accidents. Here we searched for evidence of similar effects of RhD phenotype on toxoplasmosis- or aging-associated changes in the personality profile of about 302 blood donors. We found that Rh-positive and Rh-negative subjects responded differently to toxoplasmosis. In addition to the already known effects of toxoplasmosis on novelty seeking, self transcendence, superego strength and protension, we also found effects of RhD phenotype on ego strength, protension, and praxernia, as well as opposite effects of toxoplasmosis on ego strength, praxernia, ergic tension and cooperativeness in Rh-positive and Rh-negative subjects. Moreover, our results indicate that RhD phenotype might influence not only the effect of toxoplasmosis but also the effect of aging on specific personality traits.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

143-150

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2010 Volume:57 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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