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Homosexual behaviour due to genetics and environmental factors
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world’s largest study of twins.
Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors
Jun 29, 2008 |
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Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.
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Is political orientation transmitted genetically?
Feb 06, 2008 |
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As reported in this week's issue of New Scientist magazine, research by Rice University professor of political science John Alford indicates that what is on one's mind about politics may be influenced by how people are wired ...
Genes influence people's economic choices
Oct 01, 2007 |
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An international team of researchers including an MIT graduate student has demonstrated for the first time that genes exert influence on people's behavior in a very common experimental economic game.
The genes in your congeniality: Researchers identify genetic influence in social networks
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Can't help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part ...
Twin study indicates genetic basis for processing faces, places
Dec 18, 2007 |
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A new study of twins indicates that the genetic foundation for the brain’s ability to recognize faces and places is much stronger than for other objects, such as words. The results, which appear in the December 19 issue of ...
Males with a female twin may be at higher risk for anorexia nervosa
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2007 |
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Males who have a twin sister appear more likely to develop the eating disorder anorexia nervosa than other males, including those with a twin brother, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Ps ...
Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.
Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear—and comprehend what both are saying—is an important communication skill that’s heavily influenced by your genes, say researchers ...
Environment key early: Genes' role expands in alcohol dependence
Apr 23, 2008 |
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The influence of genetics increases as young women transition from taking their first drink to becoming alcoholics. A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that although environment ...
Political-Genetic Theory Is Studied
Nov 02, 2006 |
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(AP) -- Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That's the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans.
Identical twins not as identical as believed
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Contrary to our previous beliefs, identical twins are not genetically identical. This surprising finding is presented by American, Swedish, and Dutch scientists in a study being published today in the prestigious journal ...
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