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- noun medicine The branch of
psychiatry orgenetics that studies the effect ofgenetic inheritance onmental illness
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Examples
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"An enormously superior social science, evidently founded in a precise system of psychogenetics.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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"An enormously superior social science, evidently founded in a precise system of psychogenetics.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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[Walter] Friedrich [director of the Central Institute of Youth Research in Leipzig] sought and obtained the backing of high-ranking officials of the Communist Party and all further research in psychogenetics in East Germany came to an end. "goes on to describe the aftermath he endured, which would be familiar to anyone who saw the tremendous 2006 film about life in East Germany under the thumb of the secret police,
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