1-50Studies of the Offspring of Nonschizophrenic Co-Twins from Discordant Twin

question 23

Multiple Choice

1-50.Studies of the offspring of nonschizophrenic co-twins from discordant twin pairs suggest that

• A)environmental factors play a more important role than genetic factors in the origin of schizophrenia.
• B)genetic factors cause schizophrenia,while environmental factors are essentially unimportant.
• C)a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia may remain unexpressed in some individuals unless it is released by some unknown environmental factors.
• D)the heritability of schizophrenia involves the transmission of a single dominant gene.

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