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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 influences1

Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, S Fleur W Meddens, Robbee Wedow, Mark Alan Fontana, Maël Lebreton, Abdel Abdellaoui, Anke R Hammerschlag, Michel G Nivard, Aysu Okbay, Cornelius A Rietveld, Pascal N Timshel, Stephen P Tino, Maciej Trzaskowski, Ronald de Vlaming, Christian L Zünd, Yanchun Bao, Laura Buzdugan, Ann H Caplin, Chia-Yen Chen, Peter Eibich, Pierre Fontanillas, Juan R Gonzalez, Peter K Joshi, Ville Karhunen, Aaron Kleinman, Remy Z Levin, Christina M Lill, Gerardus A Meddens, Gerard Muntané, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Frank J van Rooij, Erdogan Taskesen, Yang Wu, Futao Zhang, 23andMe Research Team, eQTLgen Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium,, Adam Auton, Jason D Boardman, David W Clark, Andrew Conlin, Conor C Dolan, Urs Fischbacher, Patrick JF Groenen, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Gregor Hasler, Albert Hofman, Mohammad A Ikram, Sonia Jain, View ORCID ProfileRobert Karlsson, Ronald C Kessler, Maarten Kooyman, James MacKillop, Minna Männikkö, Carlos Morcillo-Suarez, Matthew B McQueen, Klaus M Schmidt, Melissa C Smart, Matthias Sutter, A Roy Thurik, Andre G Uitterlinden, Jon White, Harriet de Wit, Jian Yang, Lars Bertram, Dorret Boomsma, Tõnu Esko, Ernst Fehr, David A Hinds, Magnus Johannesson, Meena Kumari, David Laibson, Patrik KE Magnusson, Michelle N Meyer, Arcadi Navarro, Abraham A Palmer, Tune H Pers, Danielle Posthuma, Daniel Schunk, Murray B Stein, Rauli Svento, Henning Tiemeier, Paul RHJ Timmers, Patrick Turley, Robert J Ursano, Gert G Wagner, James F Wilson, Jacob Gratten, James J Lee, David Cesarini, Daniel J Benjamin, View ORCID ProfilePhilipp D Koellinger, Jonathan P Beauchamp
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261081
Richard Karlsson Linnér
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
2Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Pietro Biroli
4Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Schönberggasse 1, Zurich, 8001, Switzerland
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Edward Kong
5Economics, Harvard University, 1805 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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S Fleur W Meddens
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
2Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Robbee Wedow
6Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, 1480 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
7Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
8Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 327, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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Mark Alan Fontana
9Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
10Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, 635 Downey Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Maël Lebreton
11Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 11, Amsterdam, 1018 WB, The Netherlands
12Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 129B, Amsterdam, 1001 NK, Netherlands
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Abdel Abdellaoui
13Biological psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1087 BT, The Netherlands
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Anke R Hammerschlag
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Michel G Nivard
13Biological psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1087 BT, The Netherlands
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Aysu Okbay
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
3School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Cornelius A Rietveld
14Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA, The Netherlands
2Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
15Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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Pascal N Timshel
16Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
17Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
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Stephen P Tino
18Department of Economics, University of Toronto, 150 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G7, Canada
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Maciej Trzaskowski
19Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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Ronald de Vlaming
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
2Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
3School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Christian L Zünd
4Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Schönberggasse 1, Zurich, 8001, Switzerland
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Yanchun Bao
20Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
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Laura Buzdugan
21Seminar for Statistics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Raemistrasse 101, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
22Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Bluemlisalpstrasse 10, Zurich, 8006, Switzerland
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Ann H Caplin
23Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY 10282, USA
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Chia-Yen Chen
24Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
25Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Richard B. Simches Research building, 185 Cambridge St, CPZN-6818, Boston, MA 02114, USA
26Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics, The Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Peter Eibich
27Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
28Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, Berlin, 10117, Germany
29Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1, Rostock, 18057, Germany
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Pierre Fontanillas
30Research, 23andMe, Inc., 899 W Evelyn Ave, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
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Juan R Gonzalez
31Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, 8003, Spain
32Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, 8003, Spain
33CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, 280229, Spain
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Peter K Joshi
34Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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Ville Karhunen
35Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5, Oulu, 90220, Finland
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30Research, 23andMe, Inc., 899 W Evelyn Ave, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
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36Department of Economics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Christina M Lill
37Institute of Neurogenetics, University of Lübeck, Maria-Goeppert-Str. 1, Lübeck, 23562, Germany
38Institute of Human Genetics, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Lübeck, 23538, Germany
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41Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Frank J van Rooij
15Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, The Netherlands
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Erdogan Taskesen
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Yang Wu
19Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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19Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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8Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 327, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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42Department of Economics and Finance, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90570, Finland
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13Biological psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, van der Boechorstraat 1, Amsterdam, 1087 BT, The Netherlands
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43Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Universitätssstraße 10, Konstanz, 78457, Germany
44Thurgau Institute of Economics, Hauptstrasse 90, Kreuzlingen, 8280, Switzerland
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45Department of Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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50Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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51Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 12a, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden
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35Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5, Oulu, 90220, Finland
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61Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, The Netherlands
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62UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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63Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 3077, Rm L485, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Danielle Posthuma
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
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Patrick Turley
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26Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics, The Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Robert J Ursano
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Gert G Wagner
75Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, Berlin, 14195, Germany
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James F Wilson
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Jacob Gratten
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David Cesarini
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Daniel J Benjamin
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Philipp D Koellinger
1Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
3School of Business and Economics, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands
80German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, Berlin, 10117, Germany
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Jonathan P Beauchamp
18Department of Economics, University of Toronto, 150 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G7, Canada
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Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over one 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. We identified 611 approximately independent genetic loci associated with at least one of our phenotypes, including 124 with general risk tolerance. We report evidence of substantial shared genetic influences across general risk tolerance and risky behaviors: 72 of the 124 general risk tolerance loci contain a lead SNP for at least one of our other GWAS, and general risk tolerance is moderately to strongly genetically correlated (Embedded Image to 0.50) with a range of risky behaviors. Bioinformatics analyses imply that genes near general-risk-tolerance-associated SNPs are highly expressed in brain tissues and point to a role for glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission. We find no evidence of enrichment for genes previously hypothesized to relate to risk tolerance.

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  • ↵* Lead analysts; authors 2-5 listed alphabetically.

  • ↵§ These authors oversaw this work.

  • 1 Previous title: Genome-wide study identifies 611 loci associated with risk tolerance and risky behaviors.

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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 influences1
Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, S Fleur W Meddens, Robbee Wedow, Mark Alan Fontana, Maël Lebreton, Abdel Abdellaoui, Anke R Hammerschlag, Michel G Nivard, Aysu Okbay, Cornelius A Rietveld, Pascal N Timshel, Stephen P Tino, Maciej Trzaskowski, Ronald de Vlaming, Christian L Zünd, Yanchun Bao, Laura Buzdugan, Ann H Caplin, Chia-Yen Chen, Peter Eibich, Pierre Fontanillas, Juan R Gonzalez, Peter K Joshi, Ville Karhunen, Aaron Kleinman, Remy Z Levin, Christina M Lill, Gerardus A Meddens, Gerard Muntané, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Frank J van Rooij, Erdogan Taskesen, Yang Wu, Futao Zhang, 23andMe Research Team, eQTLgen Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium,, Adam Auton, Jason D Boardman, David W Clark, Andrew Conlin, Conor C Dolan, Urs Fischbacher, Patrick JF Groenen, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Gregor Hasler, Albert Hofman, Mohammad A Ikram, Sonia Jain, Robert Karlsson, Ronald C Kessler, Maarten Kooyman, James MacKillop, Minna Männikkö, Carlos Morcillo-Suarez, Matthew B McQueen, Klaus M Schmidt, Melissa C Smart, Matthias Sutter, A Roy Thurik, Andre G Uitterlinden, Jon White, Harriet de Wit, Jian Yang, Lars Bertram, Dorret Boomsma, Tõnu Esko, Ernst Fehr, David A Hinds, Magnus Johannesson, Meena Kumari, David Laibson, Patrik KE Magnusson, Michelle N Meyer, Arcadi Navarro, Abraham A Palmer, Tune H Pers, Danielle Posthuma, Daniel Schunk, Murray B Stein, Rauli Svento, Henning Tiemeier, Paul RHJ Timmers, Patrick Turley, Robert J Ursano, Gert G Wagner, James F Wilson, Jacob Gratten, James J Lee, David Cesarini, Daniel J Benjamin, Philipp D Koellinger, Jonathan P Beauchamp
bioRxiv 261081; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261081
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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 influences1
Richard Karlsson Linnér, Pietro Biroli, Edward Kong, S Fleur W Meddens, Robbee Wedow, Mark Alan Fontana, Maël Lebreton, Abdel Abdellaoui, Anke R Hammerschlag, Michel G Nivard, Aysu Okbay, Cornelius A Rietveld, Pascal N Timshel, Stephen P Tino, Maciej Trzaskowski, Ronald de Vlaming, Christian L Zünd, Yanchun Bao, Laura Buzdugan, Ann H Caplin, Chia-Yen Chen, Peter Eibich, Pierre Fontanillas, Juan R Gonzalez, Peter K Joshi, Ville Karhunen, Aaron Kleinman, Remy Z Levin, Christina M Lill, Gerardus A Meddens, Gerard Muntané, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, Frank J van Rooij, Erdogan Taskesen, Yang Wu, Futao Zhang, 23andMe Research Team, eQTLgen Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium,, Adam Auton, Jason D Boardman, David W Clark, Andrew Conlin, Conor C Dolan, Urs Fischbacher, Patrick JF Groenen, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Gregor Hasler, Albert Hofman, Mohammad A Ikram, Sonia Jain, Robert Karlsson, Ronald C Kessler, Maarten Kooyman, James MacKillop, Minna Männikkö, Carlos Morcillo-Suarez, Matthew B McQueen, Klaus M Schmidt, Melissa C Smart, Matthias Sutter, A Roy Thurik, Andre G Uitterlinden, Jon White, Harriet de Wit, Jian Yang, Lars Bertram, Dorret Boomsma, Tõnu Esko, Ernst Fehr, David A Hinds, Magnus Johannesson, Meena Kumari, David Laibson, Patrik KE Magnusson, Michelle N Meyer, Arcadi Navarro, Abraham A Palmer, Tune H Pers, Danielle Posthuma, Daniel Schunk, Murray B Stein, Rauli Svento, Henning Tiemeier, Paul RHJ Timmers, Patrick Turley, Robert J Ursano, Gert G Wagner, James F Wilson, Jacob Gratten, James J Lee, David Cesarini, Daniel J Benjamin, Philipp D Koellinger, Jonathan P Beauchamp
bioRxiv 261081; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/261081

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