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To the Editor: We entirely agree with Guttmacher et al. (Nov. 25 issue)¹ about the importance of each patient's filing his or her family medical history. However, we wonder why the "My Family Health Portrait" form² contains no place to indicate whether family members live together or apart. A positive family history seems attributable to the familial aggregation of genes or to shared environments — diet, living conditions, lifestyle habits, and occupations. Thus, a positive family history among the members living apart would suggest a more potent contribution of genetic factors to the disease than that among the members living . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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