Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 29, 2009 @05:11AM from the born-to-run-off-the-road dept.

Serenissima writes "Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it — and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30 percent of Americans have the variant. 'These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away,' said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology associate professor and senior author of the study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex."

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It's called the XX chromosome by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-29 05:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_determination_system to type a bit more for the /. filter ...
Yup its genetic no doubt ... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-29 05:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yup its genetic no doubt ...
Two X cromossomes makes you a BAD driver, one X and Y makes you a good one !
A women? by ghislain_leblanc · 2009-10-29 05:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Are they saying that being a woman is genetic? I am truly chocked, choked I tell you!