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Tomasetti and Vogelstein then sorted types of cancer according to how much of the variability in risk is due to stem-cell divisions versus to some ‘extrinsic’ factor, such as environmental exposure to carcinogens.

The definite relation between alcoholism and insanity is due to alcohol acting not as an intrinsic but an extrinsic factor, bringing into effectiveness the hereditary weakness of the nervous system.