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In contrast to psychiatry, genetics has a powerful theory to offer which can explain various phenomena of the biological basis of many diseases. Genetics uses information from different fields (epidemiology; onto- and phylogeny; formal, biochemical, and molecular genetics; population genetics) and can integrate this information into a general theory of disease etiology and pathogenesis (Vogel 1982). Genetics is becoming the general theory of medicine.
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Propping, P. (1990). Genetic Relationship Between the Psychoses — Implications for Genetic Modeling. In: Marneros, A., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75353-4_17
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