The Nature and Nurture of Violence: Early Intervention Services for the Families of MAOA-Low Children as a Means to Reduce Violent Crime and the Costs of Violent Crime Note
Journal: OpenCommons - UConn (University of Connecticut)
Year: 2011

In 1993, scientist Hans Brunner discovered that several male members of a large Dutch family who exhibited behaviors such as impulsive aggression, arson, and attempted rape possessed a mutant copy of the MAOA gene, the gene that codes for the production of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A ("MAOA"). Brunner and his colleagues demonstrated that carrier males produced less MA OA, or were "MAOA-low. " They hypothesized that this MAA deficiency caused abnormal aggressive behavior in MAOA-low males. Sub