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- Title
Associations between dopamine D4 receptor gene variation with both infidelity and sexual promiscuity.
- Authors
Garcia, Justin R; MacKillop, James; Aller, Edward L; Merriwether, Ann M; Wilson, David Sloan; Lum, J Koji
- Abstract
Human sexual behavior is highly variable both within and between populations. While sex-related characteristics and sexual behavior are central to evolutionary theory (sexual selection), little is known about the genetic bases of individual variation in sexual behavior. The variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism in exon III of the human dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) has been correlated with an array of behavioral phenotypes and may be predicatively responsible for variation in motivating some sexual behaviors, particularly promiscuity and infidelity.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 11, pe14162
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0014162