An important contribution of the present study is that it provides an initial unbiased foray into exploring the genetic etiology of Conservatism-Liberalism by identifying chromosomal regions of genetic markers not previously known to be associated with political preferences. In addition, future studies may use the findings here as means to test the specific Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL). Over time the cumulative knowledge gained from future studies will either result in a generally accepted finding that the regions identified here are generalizable or specific to this sample. Many large-scale genetic analyses of clinical and behavioral phenotypes ignore potential sources of heterogeneity that may further reduce power to identify specific genes in … Continue reading Peter K. Hatemi