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No evidence for a correlation between behaviour and the size of the Y chromosome
Author(s) -
Brøgger Anton,
Urdal Trygve,
Larsen Finn Brasch,
Lavik Nils Johan
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1977.tb01326.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , y chromosome , correlation , genetics , chromosome , phenotype , biology , polymorphism (computer science) , karyotype , long arm , positive correlation , medicine , gene , genotype , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , mathematics
Y chromosome variation has been studied in three groups of Norwegian males: 35 boys from an adolescent psychiatric hospital; 45 men from a hospital for hard‐to‐manage or dangerous, psychotic men; and 26 boys from two ordinary school classes. Y chromosomes with 1, 2, and 3 brightly fluorescing bands were found in all three groups. One boy carried a Y with no bands. The mean values of the Yf/Yq ratio were not significantly different in the three groups (Yf is the length of the distal, brightly fluorescing part of Yq). Two cases of XY/XYY mosaicism were found among the psychotic men. The study shows that the human species is polymorphic with regard to the size of the Y chromosome, i. e. the number of fluorescent bands in the long arm. No phenotypical manifestation of this polymorphism, particuIarly as regards behaviour, was found.