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Identical twins, according to seminal twin studies in the 1960s, have only a 40 to 50 percent chance of both developing schizophrenia, despite their shared genes. According to the diathesis-stress model of psychiatric illness, a genetic vulnerability to a disorder blooms only if enough stressors cause those vulnerable genes to express themselves.
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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