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Despite its traditional preoccupation with the question of heredity versus environment, one of the most important contributions genetics can make to abnormal psychology may lie along different lines: to provide power to differentiate between causal models.
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Matthysse, S. (1993). Genetics and the Problem of Causality in Abnormal Psychology. In: Sutker, P.B., Adams, H.E. (eds) Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3008-4_3
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