Is criminality genetic? MAOA-3R

The MAOA warrior gene was the first candidate gene to be linked to antisocial behavior, identified in 1993 in a large Dutch family that was notorious for violence. A geneticist called Rod Lea reported that the MAOA-3R mutation was more common in the violent indigenous Maori population of New Zealand than in caucasian males (56% vs 34%). Lea went on to link this gene to a whole...

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