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"Bad genes" & criminal responsibility.

International journal of law and psychiatry - 1 Jan 2000

González-Tapia María Isabel, Obsuth Ingrid

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The genetics of the accused is trying to break into the courts. To date several candidate genes have been put forward and their links to antisocial behavior have been examined and documented with some consistency. In this paper, we focus on the so called "warrior gene", or the low-activity allele of the MAOA gene, which has been most consistently related to human behavior and specifically to violence and...

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PMID: 25708001
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2015.01.022

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