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Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

Karlsson Linnér, Richard ; Biroli, Pietro ; Kong, Edward ; Meddens, S. Fleur W. ; Wedow, Robbee ; Fontana, Mark Alan ; Lebreton, Maël ; Tino, Stephen P. ; Abdellaoui, Abdel ; Hammerschlag, Anke R. ; Nivard, Michel G. ; Okbay, Aysu ; Rietveld, Cornelius A. ; Timshel, Pascal N. ; Trzaskowski, Maciej ; de Vlaming, Ronald ; Zünd, Christian L. ; Bao, Yanchun ; Buzdugan, Laura ; Caplin, Ann H. ; Chen, Chia-Yen ; Eibich, Peter ; Fontanillas, Pierre ; Gonzalez, Juan R. ; Joshi, Peter K. ; Karhunen, Ville ; Kleinman, Aaron ; Levin, Remy Z. ; Lill, Christina M. ; Meddens, Gerardus A. ; Muntané, Gerard ; Sanchez-Roige, Sandra ; Rooij, Frank J. van ; Taskesen, Erdogan ; Wu, Yang ; Zhang, Futao ; Auton, Adam ; Boardman, Jason D. ; Clark, David W. ; Conlin, Andrew ; Dolan, Conor C. ; Fischbacher, Urs ; Groenen, Patrick J. F. ; Harris, Kathleen Mullan ; Hasler, Gregor ; Hofman, Albert ; Ikram, Mohammad A. ; Jain, Sonia ; Karlsson, Robert ; Kessler, Ronald C. ; Kooyman, Maarten ; MacKillop, James ; Männikkö, Minna ; Morcillo-Suarez, Carlos ; McQueen, Matthew B. ; Schmidt, Klaus M. ; Smart, Melissa C. ; Sutter, Matthias ; Thurik, A. Roy ; Uitterlinden, André G. ; White, Jon ; Wit, Harriet de ; Yang, Jian ; Bertram, Lars ; Boomsma, Dorret I. ; Esko, Tõnu ; Fehr, Ernst ; Hinds, David A. ; Johannesson, Magnus ; Kumari, Meena ; Laibson, David ; Magnusson, Patrik K. E. ; Meyer, Michelle N. ; Navarro, Arcadi ; Palmer, Abraham A. ; Pers, Tune H. ; Posthuma, Danielle ; Schunk, Daniel ; Stein, Murray B. ; Svento, Rauli ; Tiemeier, Henning ; Timmers, Paul R. H. J. ; Turley, Patrick ; Ursano, Robert J. ; Wagner, Gert G. ; Wilson, James F. ; Gratten, Jacob ; Lee, James J. ; Cesarini, David ; Benjamin, Daniel J. ; Koellinger, Philipp D. ; Beauchamp, Jonathan P.



Abstract

Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1 million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk tolerance, adventurousness, and risky behaviors in the driving, drinking, smoking, and sexual domains. Across all GWAS, we identified hundreds of associated loci, including 99 loci associated with general risk ...

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