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Chunk #5 — Introduction

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The heritability of alcohol use disorders: a meta-analysis of twin and adoption studies.
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assessments of AUD, it is possible that the cases diagnosed by different assessment methods could reflect partly independent latent genetic factors. If the reliability of AUD diagnoses differed with these two methods, it could be reflected in additive genetic, shared and individual specific environmental variance components, because unreliability increases specific environmental variance thereby decreasing the proportion of variance due to other components.