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Shared environment paradox. Twin studies have consistently allocated little or no role in the causation of mental illness to environmental factors that are shared by members of the same family. The estimates plotted here are from a recent comprehensive meta‐analysis of twin studies5, based on same‐sex twin pairs. Estimates for schizophrenia and depression were actually negative, but since a negative contribution to variance is not possible, we plotted them at 0%.
