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Complex traits, complex answers.

D Gurwitz
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There are no simple answers when it comes to the genetic study of complex traits, and schizophrenia is no exception. Debate will continue over the interaction between genes and environment. But now there are new clues.

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D Gurwitz. 1997. Complex traits, complex answers.. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000255

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