Although there have been no reports which directly investigated the influence of OXTR genetic variants on alexithymic traits, there are a number of studies of the association between OXTR polymorphisms and those various alexithymia-related traits (e.g., empathy, emotional facial recognition, and so forth) and psychiatric disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorders, psychopathy, and so forth). The gene discussed is OXTR; the disease is alexithymia.