Twin studies of psychopathology: why do the concordance rates vary?

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Many current discussions of hereditary factors in psychopathology focus on twin studies as the primary source of evidence supporting the importance of genetic determinants. In summarizing the results of these studies, authors often derive estimates of concordance rates by collapsing across studies and presenting mean or median rates. This practice implicitly assumes that the concordance rates yielded by different...

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