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Adoption Studies: Genetic Differences

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an adoption study, the similarities between adopted children and their biological and adoptive offspring are compared.

Adoption Studies are useful because they share their genetic information with their parents, even though the environment is different.
This is the best way of separating genes from environment so the two can be tested
However, Children requiring adoption are often placed with families similar to their own, so the differences may still be minimal
Where the similarity is greatest with the adoptive parents an environmental influence can be assumed on the characteristic in question. Conversely, where there is greater similarity with the biological parents this may indicate a genetic influence.

Crowe (1972) found that where
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