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Risk-taking and impulsivity

Trading, betting, and every "should I?" at 2am. There is real genetics here — and it explains far less than the headlines say.

Why this topic Crypto, prediction markets and day trading made 'impulse' a word people apply to themselves.

Variants that share a paper with this

Counted in Europe PMC, where the title or abstract names both this topic and that rsID. The number is papers, not evidence of a cause.

rs6265

BDNF

Smoking behavior

9 papers →

rs1799971

OPRM1

Opioid receptor sensitivity

3 papers →

rs10938397

GNPDA2

Obesity

1 paper →

rs1421085

FTO

Obesity

1 paper →

rs1801131

MTHFR

Folate metabolism (MTHFR A1298C)

1 paper →

rs1801133

MTHFR

Folate metabolism (MTHFR C677T)

1 paper →

How this was counted

Europe PMC, title and abstract only, searched for “risk tolerance”, “risk taking”, “impulsivity”, “sensation seeking”, “delay discounting” alongside each published rsID. Full text was not counted: it returns every paper with an rsID buried in a supplementary table. Recounted monthly.