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Posted by: Mach
Date: 13/01/2013 05:59AM
It has begun... officially.....

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

DNA of Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza to be examined for 'evil' gene in first study of its kind ever conducted on a mass murderer

The study will be the first one of its kind and will evaluate any genetic evidence for the mass killing of 20 first graders, six members of staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School and his own mother.

By Paul Thompson

PUBLISHED: 12:41 EST, 27 December 2012 | UPDATED: 01:36 EST, 28 December 2012


Scientists have been asked to study the DNA of Newtown school killer Adam Lanza to see if has an 'evil' gene that led him to carry out the massacre.

The study, which will look at any abnormalities or mutations in his individual DNA, is believed to be the first of its kind ever carried out on a mass murderer.

Lanza slaughtered 20 children and six adults in one of America's worst ever school shootings on December 14, 2012.

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Geneticists said they are likely looking at Lanza's DNA to detect a mutation or abnormality that could increase the risk of aggressive or violent behavior.

They could analyse Lanza's entire genome in great detail and try to find any unexpected mutations.

Arthur Beaudet, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, said the University of Connecticut geneticists are most likely trying to 'detect clear abnormalities of what we would call a mutation in a gene'.

He added: 'Or gene abnormalities and there are some abnormalities that are related to aggressive behavior.

'They might look for mutations that might be associated with mental illnesses and ones that might also increase the risk for violence.

Beaudet, who is also the chairman of Baylor College of Medicine's department of molecular and human genetics in Houston, Texas said geneticists should be doing this type of research because there are 'some mutations that are known to be associated with at least aggressive behavior if not violent behavior.'


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Analyzing baby DNA at birth..... as soon as you're born, they file you.... you come in at a "Level."

fossil: Level - 3999999999

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