Neil Risch - Psychiatric Disease

Psychiatric Disease

In a small twin study on Autism and Attention deficit disorder (around 50 twin pairs for each disease and zygosity) twin study, he argued these disorders may be less heritable than previously considered, implicating a significant family-level environment effect.

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