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Title: Discuss the importance of twin and adoption studies to human behavioral genetics research. What ... Post by: Fignshev on Feb 12, 2018 Discuss the importance of twin and adoption studies to human behavioral genetics research.
What will be an ideal response? Title: Discuss the importance of twin and adoption studies to human behavioral genetics research. What ... Post by: kaygarciaa on Feb 12, 2018 Monozygotic twins share identical genotypes and environments, but may have different phenotypes. Dizygotic twins share identical environments, but have different genotypes. Adoption studies separate the variables of environment and genetics; for example, the observation that sons adopted by alcoholic men show a rate of alcoholism closer to that of their biological fathers than that of their adoptive fathers indicates that alcoholism has a genetic component.
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