Your friend says he read a newspaper article suggesting researchers identified a gene for laziness. How would you explain to him why this article is misleading?
A. Candidate-gene studies cannot be done for behavioral traits like laziness.
B. Concordance rates for laziness are too low to yield good genetic data.
C. It is unlikely that a single gene is responsible for a complex behavior like laziness.
D. Heritability estimates are too unreliable to draw such a conclusion.
Answer: C
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