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Science 15 March 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3820, pp. 1249 - 1250
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3820.1249
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Incidence of Gross Chromosomal Errors among Tall Criminal American Males

Mary A. Telfer 1, David Baker 1, Gerald R. Clark 1, and Claude E. Richardson 1

1 Elwyn Institute, Elwyn, Pennsylvania 19063

Chromosome studies on 129 tall men surveyed in four different institutions for the care of criminal males in Pennsylvaniia 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.


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