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Financial and psychological risk attitudes associated with two single nucleotide polymorphisms in the nicotine receptor (CHRNA4) gene.
PloS one - 20 Aug 2009
Roe Brian E, Tilley Michael R, Gu Howard H, Beversdorf David Q, Sadee Wolfgang, Haab Timothy C, Papp Audrey C
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With recent advances in understanding of the neuroscience of risk taking, attention is now turning to genetic factors that may contribute to individual heterogeneity in risk attitudes. In this paper we test for genetic associations with risk attitude measures derived from both the psychology and economics literature. To develop a long-term prospective study, we first evaluate both types of risk attitudes and find...
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