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Psychological Characteristics Associated with XYY Sex-Chromosome Complement in a State Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Hope ,
A. E. Philip  and
J. M. Loughran
K. Hope
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
A. E. Philip
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
J. M. Loughran
Affiliation:
State Hospital, Carstairs, Lanarkshire
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In a recent survey of males detained in a State hospital for dangerous, violent and criminal psychiatric patients, seven subjects with an XYY sex-chromosome constitution were discovered (Jacobs et al., 1965). Further investigation (Price et al., 1966) yielded two more patients with this abnormality. Psychological testing of these same patients was undertaken in order to detect cognitive or clinical features which distinguish them from other men in the same hospital.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 498 , May 1967 , pp. 495 - 498
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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