Kyrin has several close relatives who are alcoholics, who are clinically depressed, or who suffer from schizophrenia.Kyrin has decided to have a vasectomy so that he will never father any children.He explains that his children would surely have a mental illness.Is Kyrin right?

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Kyrin is overreacting because while there is a hereditary component to alcoholism, clinical depression, and schizophrenia, the presence of these disorders in relatives does not guarantee that his children would inherit them. The heritability of these conditions suggests an increased risk, not a certainty.

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