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The heritability of alcoholism symptoms: "indicators of genetic and environmental influence in alcohol-dependent individuals" revisited.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 May 1999
Slutske W S, True W R, Scherrer J F, Heath A C, Bucholz K K, Eisen S A, Goldberg J, Lyons M J, Tsuang M T
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There is consistent evidence from twin and adoption studies implicating genetic factors in the etiology of alcoholism, yet few studies have examined the role of genetic influences on individual symptoms of alcoholism. In a previous study of 113 male twins, Johnson et al. (1996a) identified 7 alcoholism symptoms that were more "genetic" and 14 that were more "environmental" (that is, non-genetic) in their etiology...
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