Genetics: Relative risk

Pneumoviruses: Molecular Genetics and Reverse Genetics

Pneumoviruses are responsible for significant respiratory disease in their hosts and represent a major problemfor human and animal health. Pneumoviruses are members of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamilyPneumovirinae and the virus particles consist of a negative-sense, nonsegmented RNA genome within a helical nucleocapsid structure enveloped in a lipid membrane derived from the ho...

Genetics and Risk Assessment

The last decade has witnessed a dramatic evolution in ways genome research is performed including a broader introduction of patient-specific genomic knowledge into the clinical practice. This Hot Topic issue of Current Genomics attempts to capture the breadth of ongoing basic research and matured assays for clinical diagnostic tests. Without claiming to provide a comprehensive overview of curre...

Decreasing relative risk premium

We consider the risk premium π demanded by a decision maker with present wealth x in order to be indifferent between obtaining a new level of wealth y1 with certainty, or to participate in a lottery which either results in unchanged wealth x or a level of wealth y2 > y1. We then define the relative risk premium λ as the quotient between π and the increase in wealth y1−x which the decision maker...

Decreasing Relative Risk Aversion

The testable implication of the complete risk-sharing hypothesis depends on what is assumed on households' relative risk aversion (RRA) coefficient. We therefore use a hyperbolic absolute risk aversion (HARA) utility function, which includes increasing, constant, and decreasing RRA as special cases, to test this hypothesis. Using household level total non-durable consumption data from Indian vi...

Is genetics research "minimal risk"