Genetic Cheaters

The scientists working in Sweden's Karolinska Institute are officially geniuses. Apparently it took thousands of years, countless generations of men and the tireless trial and error testing , but they did it. They found the actual gene that causes men to cheat on their partners.

From the looks of this, i would bet someone working at the institute got caught groping a lab assistant, and the only solution to the "problem" was to invest millions of dollars in a research that linked his behavior to a gene - problem solved.

The study found a gene variant, or allele, present in cheating voles also was present in two of every five men. According to the study's conclusions, those men with the cheating allele were more prone to marital dysfunction and more likely to get divorced. Men with two copies of the allele were twice as likely as a man without the allele. The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, studied the genetics of cheating. Researchers there said the cheating allele regulates the activity of a hormone in the brain that can affect a man's attitudes toward fidelity and monogamy. If a man lacks the gene variant they're more likely to be a devoted mate, researchers said.Karolinska Institute scientists studied more than 1,000 heterosexual couples. The researchers only looked at men because the hormone produced by the gene is known to play a larger role in men's brains than in women's brains.

The researchers also found that the gene seemed to predict whether women described their mates as close or distant, and whether the men are more likely to marry, or simply live with their mates.

So according to this study if you are a faithful loving husband or boyfriend you are actually missing a gene, there is something wrong with you , fantastic. The odd thing about this is that the gene doesn't control attraction to the opposite sex, but actually will make a man more likely to follow up on his instincts and ignore the consequences, morality and feelings of his partner. They have basically isolated the "douchebag" gene, i have never been more proud of Sweden.