AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY PRISONERS WITH AN XYY CHROMOSOME COMPLEMENT BY PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANS

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Abstract
A population of prisoners 6 feet in height and over were evaluated by psychiatric and psychological means to concentrate those who seemed to fit the reported criteria of persons with an XYY chromosome karyotype. Chromosome analysis on the population selected by psychiatric and psychological evaluation revealed no such individual. However, cytogenetic study of a tall prisoner with severe acne into adulthood resulted in identification of one XYY individual in that prison population. He did not fit the psychiatric or psychological criteria for those with an XYY chromosome anomaly. Complete case work-up of this man is reported. A method to determine the proper criteria to concentrate persons with XYY chromosome karyotype in a prison population is discussed.

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