J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998;65:435 ( October )
Editorial commentary
Crime in Huntington's disease
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Discussion of the relative contributions of nature and nurture
to development of personality is an old and controversial issue that
has been given new life with the development of the field of
behavioural genetics.1 In this context criminal behaviour represents an area where debate over the role of genetic with respect
to environmental aetiologies is increasingly active. The paper by
Jensen et al (this volume, pp 467
471) contributes to this debate with a stated aim of evaluating "the relative importance of the psychosocial environment and of gene coding for Huntington's disease on the development of criminal behaviour in patients with Huntington's disease and their relatives". The relevance of such a
study in Huntington's disease is supported by several papers which
have reported behavioural disturbances to be a particular problem in
this condition. A strength of the paper by Jensen et al is
that their results are based on data . . . [Full text of this article]
