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nbme18/Block 1/Question#46 (reveal difficulty score)
An investigator conduct a meta-analysis of ...
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This question is worded extremely poorly-- Basically I looked at it as if 1) the twin studies showed that it was 50% genetic 2) the other studies only found loci accounting for a small percent of that heritability

Based on 1 & 2 you can get to the answer

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dhpainte22  This question was there just to annoy people and their train of thought basically during the exam :( +7
geekymle  it did trouble me but i somehow managed to get it right, but kept coming back to it again n again to understand what exactly it was trying to ask. +



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MM will be induced a AL(primary amyloidosis).

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