Comments on: MAOA Gene Linked To Violent Behavior

By: Interested High School Student

Interested High School Student — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:07:17 +0000

Um, I would like to apologise for calling you sir. After doing alittle bit more research I discovered that you are in fact Female like me! ^_^ SO, I was wondering if you had anymore interesting tidbits of infomation I could use in my research paper.

By: Interested High School Student

Interested High School Student — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:01:20 +0000

Dear Sir, I am doing a project for my genetics class and my topic is how Violence can be genetic. I must Write a ten page paper by the end of this year. And I was wondering if you had any advice of follow up information to give me. I never knew how exciting genetics can be untill I took this class. I hope you can show me more.

By: Genetics and Health » Treating People Instead of Genes

Genetics and Health » Treating People Instead of Genes — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:48:01 +0000

[...] Mutations in the MAOA gene, previously linked to violence, neophilia, and stress, found the following: [...]

By: Genetics and Health » MAOA Gene and Maori Violence

Genetics and Health » MAOA Gene and Maori Violence — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:51:31 +0000

[...] Is it any wonder the Maori objected to the inclusion of their DNA in the National Geographic’s The Genographic Project? The latest research produced by New Zealand researcher Dr Rod Lea and his colleagues’ shows a connection between the frequency of specific monoamine oxidase (MAOA) gene variants and certain positive and negative behaviors in the Maori. The MAOA gene has previously been linked to violent behavior and neophilia. [...]

By: Genetics and Health » MAOA Gene and Neophilia

Genetics and Health » MAOA Gene and Neophilia — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:07:19 +0000

[...] Several people have been searching for the MAOA gene over the last few days so I knew recent findings must have been interesting. I’ve previously posted about the gene’s association with violent behavior but after a little digging, I found that the surge of recent interest has to do with a reported a slightly dated study in the April 2006 issue of Psychiatric Genetics. [...]

By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:20:17 +0000

Paul: Thanks for the comment. Although we’re not at that stage now, the hope is that gene therapy or perhaps pharmaceuticals will one day be developed which target specific genes and help to ramp up and dampen their action.

Even without gene-specific therapy, we could use general pharmaceuticals to control people labeled violent. Anyone who has the requisite profile of “violent genes” could be given a dose of something to keep them in a mental strait jacket.

By: Paul Mernon

Paul Mernon — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:03:43 +0000

I understand how this finding can help to identify people with possible violent tendencies, but how it can help with therapy for such people? How knowing a gene can help to develop medicine to treat condition that depends on it?
And, indeed, this brings up a lot of ethical questions.

By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:49:16 +0000

Deb: You crack me up! I swear you say this every time.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:36:21 +0000

This is HUGE. I so love genetic research!

By: Anthropology.net

Anthropology.net — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:05:24 +0000

Could the MAOA gene link to violent behavior without integrating culture?…

The web is buzzing with news from the National Institutes of Health and Mental Health, publishing a paper in PNAS, of a probable violence gene. ABC News Online, Genetics and Health, and Science Blog have wrote about it so far. The original NIH press re…