gene related to violence?

[Jasper Saris]

mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu wrote:
: In article <BOMINAAR.32.30A0DAA0 at chem.rug.nl>, BOMINAAR at chem.rug.nl writes:
: >
: >>> > > Does anyone know of research being done to identify a gene thought to
: >>> > > cause a predisposition to violent behavior in humans who have it?  If so,
: >>> > > where could I get more information?
: >>> > 

: I'd bet that a multivariate analysis would show that the primary factor
: associated with violent behavior is being male.  So I guess you could say
: that all genes involved in that, from the original male/female
: determination all the way down through genes that are differentially
: expressed by sex "predispose" towards violence.

: What you probably meant was, genes that make some males more violent than
: other males, and for that I have no idea.

: Regards,

: David Mathog
: mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
: Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech 

The only entry I know of is work from Dr. H. Brunner, among others, 
working at the University Nijmegen (The Netherlands). They showed that in 
a certain pedigree a significant correlation exists between male carriers 
of gene-mutation and "less controled violence".
The reference should be retrievable via GDB. More info you could perhaps 
get via the "list" HUMMOL_GEN, also having a WWW site.

So not that much, but perhaps enough for a start.

Regards,

Jasper Saris
Dept. Human Genetics
Leiden University
The Netherlands