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Discuss the importance of twin and adoption studies to human behavioral genetics research.
 
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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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