A study of a specific human disease in several thousand pairs of twins results in the following concordance values: - For dizygotic twins: 0.5% concordance - For monozygotic twins: 1.31 % concordance , 1a) If 10,000 pairs of dizygotic twins were involved in the study, how many of those twin pairs include two individuals affected by the disease? Your answer should be a specific number. 1b) How should this data be interpreted? Choose one. A. Environmental factors contribute to this disease B. Genetic factors contribute to this disease C. Both genetic and environmental factors contribute to this disease D. Neither genes nor environment contribute to this disease
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