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- <text id=92TT2417>
- <title>
- Oct. 26, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <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
- </hdr><body>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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