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Why Your Financial Decisions Might Be Written in Your DNA

Financial decisions such as whether to sell property fixed term mortgage or renew existing mortgage terms have long been attributed to economic rationality, market conditions, and personal circumstances. Emerging evidence from genomic research now suggests that genetic variation may systematically influence these complex economic behaviors through biological pathways affecting risk tolerance, temporal discounting, and cognitive processing. Genome-wide association studies have identified specific genetic variants associated with financial …