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We have heard about the God gene and the gay gene — though each has been met with significant skepticism. Now comes news of a gene that Swedish researchers are touting as a possible biological basis for why some guys won’t settle down.
Credit a young researcher at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute for discovering a link between a variation in the AVPR1A gene — which has been linked to autism and how people interact socially — and a propensity for men to skip out on women, or to have marital problems if they do tie the knot.
In a photograph on the Karolinska’s website, the researcher, Hasse Walum, looks a little like rocker Kurt Cobain.
Walum did not report if he carries the tell-tale gene, although in a study of 552 […]

Original post by David Ewing Duncan, Portfolio.com