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Twin studies in behavioral research: a skeptical view.

Theoretical population biology - 1 Feb 2002

Kamin Leon J, Goldberger Arthur S

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We review in detail two major ongoing research projects that employ samples of twins reared apart (and in one case, twins reared together). The studies attempt, via model fitting, to estimate proportions of genetic and environmental variance for many human traits. We discuss problems concerning the representativeness of samples, the accuracy and reliability of the data, the extent of contact of nominally...

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PMID: 11895384
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2001.1555

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