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Complexity and accountability: the witches' brew of psychiatric genetics.

Social studies of science - 1 Aug 2010

Arribas-Ayllon Michael, Bartlett Andrew, Featherstone Katie

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This paper examines the role of complexity in descriptions of the aetiology of common psychiatric disorders. While scientists attest to the discovery of an underlying reality of complex inheritance--the so-called 'witches' brew' of genetic and non-genetic factors--we argue that 'complexity' also...

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PMID: 20973446
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710363511

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