Genetic influences on political ideologies: Twin analyses of 19 measures of political ideologies from five democracies and genome-wide findings from three populations

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 282-294

  Hatemi, Peter K ^a,b,c,d,e   Medland, Sarah E ^a   Klemmensen, Robert ^d   Oskarsson, Sven ^f   Littvay, Levente ^g   Dawes, Christopher T ^h   Verhulst, Brad ^e   McDermott, Rose ⁱ   Nørgaard, Asbjørn Sonne ^d   Klofstad, Casey A ^j   Christensen, Kaare ^d   Johannesson, Magnus ^k   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^l   Eaves, Lindon J ^e   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^k STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^l Department of Economics Stockholm School of Economics ^*

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Author keywords

Attitudes; Authoritarianism; GWAS; Ideology; Politics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTHORITY; DENMARK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IDEOLOGY; INDIVIDUALITY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PERSONAL VALUE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; TWINS; UNITED STATES; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; POLITICS;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; POLITICS;

EID: 84901593035     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-014-9648-8     Document Type: Article

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