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Adventurousness cuts both ways: a Mendelian randomization of adventurousness on 10 cognitive and behavioral traits
2020-03-16
Abstract excerpt
Adventurousness is speculated to improve happiness but also predispose to risky behaviors. Since non-experimental studies can suffer from confounding and reverse causation, and personality traits cannot be randomized, it is challenging to unravel how adventurousness impacts the mind and behavior. Mendelian randomization (MR), a quasi-randomization technique that uses genetic variants as instruments to avoid confou...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 356920e3-0990-53c7-86a3-b7adae76098b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.03.12.20034918