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Heritability estimates provide a crumbling foundation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Scott F. Stoltenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Alcohol Research Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3318 sstolten@umich.edu www.personal.umich.edu/~sstolten/
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When Genotype × Environment (G × E) interactions are present, heritability estimates are not interpretable. Mealey cites abundant evidence for G × E interactions in the etiology of sociopathy, thereby completely undermining estimates of the heritability of sociopathy which form the foundation of her model. Without proper evidence for a genetic basis of sociopathy, Mealey's sociobiological model collapses under its own great weight.

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© 1997 Cambridge University Press