Heritability Estimates for Type I Alcoholism Are About 0

question 53

True/False

Heritability estimates for Type I alcoholism are about 0.90 and about 0.40 for Type II, indicating that environmental factors are more important to understanding Type II alcoholism than Type I alcoholism.

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