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Genetic studies of pathological gambling: a review of methodology and analyses of data from the Vietnam Era Twin Registry.
Journal of gambling studies - 1 Jan 2005
Shah Kamini R, Eisen Seth A, Xian Hong, Potenza Marc N
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Twin studies represent an important and powerful approach to estimating the relative contributions of environmental and genetic factors to the expression of psychiatric illnesses. In this article, we first explain the rationale for using large populations of monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs to estimate genetic and environmental contributions to a disorder and the statistical modeling associated with this...
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