Word: xy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Hugon was being tried for strangling to death a 61-year-old prostitute. His lawyers cited medical evidence that the 32-year-old drifter had required psychiatric care at 17, attempted suicide five times, and suffered from chromosome abnormality as well. His genetic allotment was XYY rather than XY, and the defense sought acquittal. The prosecution asked for five to ten years. Despite Hugon's genetic imbalance, the jury decided to give him seven...
...chromosome, the baby gets that X plus one from the mother, and will be an XX girl. If the sperm contains a Y chromosome, the baby gets that plus an X from the mother; the potent male Y overpowers the single X, and it's a boy -normally, XY...
...than the average (about 18). But among their siblings there was an unusually low incidence of criminality. And in the only case so far reported of an XYY with several children, the abnormality was not transmitted: an Oregon XYY has had six sons, but all have a normal XY pattern...