Genetic influences on eating disorders most likely involve
A. a specific gene for each actual eating disorder.
B. an inherited personality tendency that may make development of an eating disorder more likely.
C. multiple genes interacting in ways not yet determined and that directly produce eating disordered behavior.
D. recessive genes.
Answer: B
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