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Article: At last! Modern scientists have located the working-class gene
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1996
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The highly competitive world of academic genetics is in growing
turmoil following the controversial claim that a "working-class
gene" has been discovered by researchers in the south of England.
Dr Kevin Darrenson, Professor of Heredity Studies at the
University of Southern Hampshire, has no doubt that the claims are
justified. Two years ago, his study of family histories of 284
working-class men alerted him to the possibility of a genetic
component to class structure.
"We've never seen such strong correlations," he explained.
"Sixty per cent of the sample had a working-class father, and
nearly 70 per cent of the siblings of members of our sample were
also working class." Maternal uncles, ...