Incidence of gross chromosomal errors among tall criminal American males.
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.
D000782:Aneuploidy; D001827:Body Height; D002610:Cheek / Q000166:cytology; D003418:Criminology; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000235:genetics*; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D007713:Klinefelter Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012729:Sex Chromosome Aberrations / Q000453:epidemiology*