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strangeaffliction

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on: Jun 21, 2018
If your identical twin has schizophrenia, what does that mean for you?
 
  a. If you inherited the gene for schizophrenia, you will be diagnosed with schizophrenia too.
 b. Your chances of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are not increased as long as you were not raised by the same parents.
  c. Your chances of being diagnosed with schizophrenia are the same as the rest of the populationabout 1 percent.
  d. You have about a 50 percent chance of also being diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Question 2

The concordance rate among identical twins for schizophrenia is approximately _________ percent.
 
  a. 10
  b. 25
  c. 50
  d. 90


aloop

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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c


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