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No evidence for a correlation between behaviour and the size of the Y chromosome

1977; Wiley; Volume: 11; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1399-0004.1977.tb01326.x

1399-0004

Anton Brögger, Trygve Urdal, Finn Brasch Larsen, Nils Johan Lavik,

Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities

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, particularly as regards behaviour, was found.