AccScience Publishing / JCTR / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.36922/jctr.24.00002
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Genetic and environmental influences on vaccine hesitancy

Judy Lynn Silberg1 * Andrew Heath2 Frederick Gerard Moeller3
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1 Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
2 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
3 Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
JCTR 2024, 10(3), 209–211; https://doi.org/10.36922/jctr.24.00002
Submitted: 11 January 2024 | Accepted: 27 March 2024 | Published: 5 June 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Keywords
COVID-19
Vaccine hesitancy
Genetics
Environment
Twins
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicting interest.
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