How do we decide whom we choose as friends?
Findings from a new study at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine, funded by the National Institutes of Health, suggests that our choice of friends may be genetic.
“As we grow and move out of our own home environment, our genetically influenced temperament becomes more and more important in influencing the kinds of friends we like to hang out with,” says Dr. Kendler. “The study shows how genetic and family environmental factors influence the ways in which we create our own social environment as we grow.”...











