Men not responsible for cheating: controlled by genes

Men not responsible for cheating: controlled by gene

Researchers have given men the ultimate excuse for cheating – it’s not us it’s our genes (or some of us anyway).

According to the study’s conclusions, those men with the cheating allele were more prone to marital dysfunction and more likely to get divorced. Men with two copies of the allele were twice as likely as a man without the allele.

The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, studied the genetics of cheating. Researchers there said the cheating allele regulates the activity of a hormone in the brain that can affect a man’s attitudes toward fidelity and monogamy.

If a man lacks the gene variant they’re more likely to be a devoted mate, researchers said.

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