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r is easier to study in boys because they have only one copy whereas girls have two, one for each of their two X chromosomes. For each boy, Caspi and Moffitt collected information on the presence and frequency of their antisocial behavior and whether they were raised by parents who were caring, mildly abus

were caring, mildly abusive, or severely abusive. For each boy, they also noted whether they had the low or high expressing form of MAOA. Caspi and Moffitt’s results provided a textbook example of nature’s interaction with nurture. If the parents were caring, the genes made no difference in their child’s

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