Large-scale genetic study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors indentifies new loci and reveals shared genetic influences

Abstract

Risk tolerance is an important variable in the behavioral sciences, but few genetic variants have so far been found to robustly associate with it or with risky behaviors. We, the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Richard Karlsson Linnér (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  2. Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich)
  3. Mark Fontana (University of Southern California)
  4. Anke Hammerschlaag (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  5. Edward Kong (Harvard University)
  6. Maël Lebreton (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  7. Fleur Meddens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  8. Michel Nivard (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  9. Aysu Okbay (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  10. Niels Rietveld (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  11. Erdogan Taskesen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  12. Patrick Turley (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
  13. Ronald De Vlaming (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  14. Robbee Wedow (University of Colorado Boulder)
  15. Abdel Abdellaoui (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  16. Yanchun Bao (University of Essex)
  17. Laura Buzdugan (University of Zurich)
  18. Chia-yen Chen (Massachussetts General Hospital)
  19. Peter Eibich (University of Oxford)
  20. Pierre Fontanillas (23andMe)
  21. Peter Joshi (University of Edinburgh)
  22. Ville Karhunen (University of Oulu)
  23. Christina Lill (University of Lübeck)
  24. Gerardus Meddens (Team Loyalty BV)
  25. Gerard Muntané (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  26. Sandra Sanchez-roige (University of California, San Diego)
  27. Frank Van Rooij (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  28. Murray Stein (University of California, San Diego)
  29. Adam Auton (23andMe)
  30. David Clark (University of Edinburgh)
  31. Andrew Conlin (University of Oulu)
  32. Conor Dolan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  33. Urs Fischbacher (University of Konstanz)
  34. Patrick Groenen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  35. Gregor Hasler (University of Bern)
  36. Albert Hofman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  37. M Arfan Ikram (Erasmus Medical Center)
  38. Sonia Jain (University of California, San Diego)
  39. Robert Karlsson (Karolinska Institutet)
  40. James Mackillop (McMaster University)
  41. Minna Männikkö (University of Oulu)
  42. Carlos Morcillo-suarez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  43. Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich)
  44. Melissa Smart (University of Essex)
  45. Matthias Sutter (University of Cologne)
  46. Roy Thurik (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  47. André Uitterlinden (Erasmus Medical Center)
  48. Jon White (University College London)
  49. Harriet de Wit (University of Chicago)
  50. Lars Bertram (University of Lübeck)
  51. Dorret Boomsma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  52. Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
  53. Magnus Johannesson (Stockholm School of Economics)
  54. Meena Kumari (University of Essex)
  55. Patrik KE Magnusson (Karolinska Institutet)
  56. Arcadi Navarro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  57. Abraham Palmer (University of California, San Diego)
  58. Daniel Schunk (Johannes Gutenberg University)
  59. Rauli Svento (University of Oulu)
  60. Henning Tiemeier (Erasmus Medical Center)
  61. Paul Timmers (University of Edinburgh)
  62. Robert Ursano (Uniformed Services University Health Science)
  63. Gert Wagner (Max Planck Institute for Human Development,)
  64. James Wilson (University of Edinburgh)
  65. James Lee (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
  66. Jake Gratten (The University of Queensland)
  67. David Laibson (Harvard University)
  68. Danielle Posthuma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  69. David Cesarini (New York University)
  70. Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California)
  71. Philipp Koellinger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  72. Jonathan Beauchamp (University of Toronto)

Topic Areas

Developmental Disorders (e.g. ADHD) , Personality, Temperament, Attitudes, Politics and Religion

Session

6C-SY » Risk Tolerance (15:30 - Friday, 30th June, Forum)

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