Risk tolerance in the genes

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

An international group that includes researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified 124 genetic variants associated with a person’s willingness to take risks, as reported in a study published January 14 in Nature Genetics. The researchers emphasize that no variant on its own meaningfully affects a particular person’s risk tolerance or […]

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