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Bad nature, bad nurture, and testimony regarding MAOA and SLC6A4 genotyping at murder trials.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Nov 2007
Bernet William, Vnencak-Jones Cindy L, Farahany Nita, Montgomery Stephen A
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Recent research-in which subjects were studied longitudinally from childhood until adulthood-has started to clarify how a child's environment and genetic makeup interact to create a violent adolescent or adult. For example, male subjects who were born with a particular allele of the monoamine oxidase A gene and also were maltreated as children had a much greater likelihood of manifesting violent antisocial...
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