Incidence of Gross Chromosomal Errors among Tall Criminal American Males
- 15 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 159 (3820) , 1249-1250
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3820.1249
Abstract
Chromosome studies on 129 tall men surveyed in four different institutions for the care of criminal males in Pennsylvania showed that 1 in 11 subjects displayed aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes; specifically, five cases of 47,XYY and seven cases of Klinefelter syndrome were identified. All the aneuploid subjects were mentally ill; none had been cytogenetically diagnosed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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