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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 27HEALTH & SCIENCEEt Cetera
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  4.     LIKE BROTHER, LIKE SISTER
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  6.     Conventional medical wisdom holds that men are driven to
  7. alcoholism primarily by their genes, women by their social
  8. environment. Not so, according to a report in the Journal of the
  9. American Medical Association by a team led by researchers at the
  10. Medical College of Virginia. Interviewing 1,030 sets of female
  11. twins, they found that when one sister was alcoholic, odds that
  12. the other would have a drinking problem were greater among
  13. identical vs. fraternal siblings. Heredity accounts for 50% to
  14. 60% of a woman's vulnerability to alcoholism, about the same as
  15. for men.
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