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To: doorgunner69
How about the prevalence for other common mental disorders? Did not bother to study those, did you?

Alcoholism is well studied. There is a clear genetic factor. In some people, it is determinative; these folks are drunks from the first drink. In most folks, it's more complicated but the genetic predisposition is clearly important. And some people can drink like a fish their entire life without a problem. These tend to be the people who insist that alcoholism is entirely a matter of character.

24 posted on 04/12/2016 1:37:50 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

I think some mental disorders have some sort of genetic predisposition component as well. It wouldn’t shock me that there are absolutely some sort of predisposition component with homosexuality.

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27 posted on 04/12/2016 1:42:44 PM PDT by Ransomed
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