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Putting the ‘Human’ Back in Genetics: Modeling the Extended Kinships of Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2012

Lindon Eaves
Lindon Eaves*
Affiliation:
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, United States of America. [email protected]
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*Address for correspondence: Lindon Eaves, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

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Few papers have attempted to address the potential of extended kinships of twins to resolve the complexities of biological and cultural inheritance in humans. Since the mid-80s these issues have largely been buried beneath the quest for specific genes that contribute to individual differences in complex traits and liability to disease. The articles of Keller et al. and Medland and Keller (current issue) revisit these issues. History will decide whether these new papers represent the final gasp of a paradigm superceded by the ‘new’ genetics or contain the timely seeds of new birth in the face of a 30-year genetic research program otherwise poised on the cusp of degeneration (Lakatos & Musgrave, 1970).

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Twin Research and Human Genetics , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 01 February 2009 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009