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David T Lykken1, Seymour Geisser2, Auke Tellegen3

  • 1Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

概括

使用经典双胞胎方法估计遗传性需要800多对双胞胎,并依赖于不太可能的假设. 单胞胎双胞胎分开抚养 (MZA) 设计提供了一种更稳定和可靠的方法来估计遗传性 (H).

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