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Concepts of Genetics 11th Edition by William Klug,Michael Cummings,Charlotte Spencer,Michael Palladino
Edition 11ISBN: 9781292139456Concepts of Genetics 11th Edition by William Klug,Michael Cummings,Charlotte Spencer,Michael Palladino
Edition 11ISBN: 9781292139456 Exercise 4
Various approaches have been applied to study the genetics of problem and pathological gambling (PG), and within-family vulnerability has been well documented. However, family studies, while showing clusters within blood relatives, cannot separate genetic from environmental influences. Eisen (2001) applied "twin studies" using 3359 twin pairs from the Vietnam-era Twin Registry and found that a substantial portion of the variance associated with PG can be attributed to inherited factors. How might twin studies be used to distinguish environmental from genetic factors in complex behavioral traits such as PG?
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Concepts of Genetics 11th Edition by William Klug,Michael Cummings,Charlotte Spencer,Michael Palladino
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