{"id":5987,"date":"2012-05-19T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:45:43","slug":"genes-explaining-political-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2012\/05\/genes-explaining-political-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Genes explaining political preferences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new PNAS paper examined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2012\/05\/02\/1120666109.long\">just this question<\/a> and arrived at some already expected results<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our analyses suggest that these traits have a polygenic architecture, with the heritable variation explained by many genes with small effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For &#8220;small&#8221; read &#8220;basically none&#8221;, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new PNAS paper examined just this question and arrived at some already expected results Our analyses suggest that these traits have a polygenic architecture, with the heritable variation explained by many genes with small effects. For &#8220;small&#8221; read &#8220;basically none&#8221;, yea, yea. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}