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<text id=92TT2417>
<title>
Oct. 26, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 26, 1992 The Iceman's Secrets
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 27
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Et Cetera
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<p> LIKE BROTHER, LIKE SISTER
</p>
<p> Conventional medical wisdom holds that men are driven to
alcoholism primarily by their genes, women by their social
environment. Not so, according to a report in the Journal of the
American Medical Association by a team led by researchers at the
Medical College of Virginia. Interviewing 1,030 sets of female
twins, they found that when one sister was alcoholic, odds that
the other would have a drinking problem were greater among
identical vs. fraternal siblings. Heredity accounts for 50% to
60% of a woman's vulnerability to alcoholism, about the same as
for men.
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</body></article>
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