Snippets From the Past: Imaginative Designs--Separating Hereditary From Environmental Effects in pre-DNA Times.

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In an attempt to reproduce the results of an inconclusive 1927 report by the British Medical Research Council on the hereditary versus social origins of rheumatic fever, Read, Ciocco, and Taussig, from Johns Hopkins University, with the support of Frost, conducted a case-control study in 1935 and 1936. Their study, which appeared in the American Journal of Hygiene in 1938, was outstanding for its clear and tidy...

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