Article
Mild learning difficulties and offending behaviour--is there a link with monoamine oxidase A deficiency?
Psychiatric genetics - 1 Sept 2001
Stamps V R, Abeling N G, van Gennip A H, van Cruchten A G, Gurling H M
Abstract excerpt
We have attempted to replicate the findings of Brunner et al., who described a large Dutch kindred where several males were of borderline intelligence and showed characteristically aggressive and sometimes dangerous or extremely antisocial behaviour. The genetic defect for this syndrome was assigned to the p11-p21 region of the X chromosome following linkage analysis in a single kindred. Subsequent sequencing of...
Topics
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Chromosome Mapping
- Circadian Rhythm
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Inpatients
- Learning Disabilities
- Monoamine Oxidase
- Mutation
- Normetanephrine
- Reference Values
- Vanilmandelic Acid
- X Chromosome