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  2. Irving Gottesman - Wikipedia

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    The researchers had hypothesized that schizoida in a twin was how a schizophrenia carrier gene, one in a non-schizophrenic still passing on a genetic risk, expressed itself. The twin study did not confirm this. [16] In the Denmark study, the researchers evaluated the extent to which genes underpin psychopathology. [3]

  3. James Shields (academic) - Wikipedia

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    James Shields (21 November 1918 – 20 June 1978) was a Scottish psychiatric geneticist and twin researcher. [1] In the 1960s, he worked with Irving Gottesman on a twin study of schizophrenia at the Medical Research Council Psychiatric Genetics Unit at Maudsley Hospital in London, England.

  4. Peter McGuffin - Wikipedia

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    McGuffin and colleagues re-examined the classic Maudsley schizophrenia study of Gottesman and Shields at a time when there widespread questioning of a genetic component for schizophrenia on the basis that studies until then had used descriptive clinical diagnoses rather than modern operational criteria.

  5. Twin study - Wikipedia

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    The power of twin designs arises from the fact that twins may be either identical (monozygotic (MZ), i.e. developing from a single fertilized egg and therefore sharing all of their polymorphic alleles) or fraternal (dizygotic (DZ), i.e. developing from two fertilized eggs and therefore sharing on average 50% of their alleles, the same level of genetic similarity found in non-twin siblings).

  6. Subfields of psychology - Wikipedia

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    Abnormal psychology is the study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. Abnormal psychology studies the nature of psychopathology and its causes, and this knowledge is applied in clinical psychology to treat patients with psychological disorders.

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    Consider finding meaningful ways to remember and honor the loved ones lost, such as creating new rituals like lighting a candle in their memory or cooking their favorite meal.

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  9. List of geneticists - Wikipedia

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    Irving I. Gottesman (1930–2016), US behavioral geneticist, used twin studies to analyze schizophrenia; Carol W. Greider (born 1961), US molecular biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase; Jack Greenblatt (20-21st centuries), Molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto