The Effect Of Genetics Factors On Agressive Behavior

Year 2017, Volume: 31 Issue: 2, 97 - 102, 23.08.2017

Duygu Onur Cura Tufan Çankaya

Abstract

Behavioral genetics examines the role of genetic and
environmental factors on the behavior patterns and personality traits. With the
sequencing of the human genome, studies have focused that which genes are
active in the development of behavior and personality traits. The complex
behavior and properties are regulated by multiple genes. Studies have shown
that to explain the behavioral differences between individuals not only genes
but also environmental factors that affect the function of the gene must be
considered together. Experience of a lifetime by changing the expression of
genes leave epigenetic marks on the human genome and allows the formation of
the individualized behavior patterns. In this article, gene-environment
interactions on behaviour was handled, and the antisocial behavior and violence
as important issues of our age which their genetics were discussed.

Keywords

Gene-environment interactions, behavior, epigenetics, violence

Genetik faktörlerin şiddet davranışı üzerine etkisi

Abstract

Davranış genetiği, davranış kalıpları ve kişilik
özelliklerine genetik ve çevresel faktörlerin etkisini inceleyen bilim
alanıdır. İnsan genomunun dizilenmesiyle birlikte, davranış ve kişilik
özelliklerinin gelişiminde genlerin etkisini araştıran çalışmalar hız kazanmıştır.
Kompleks davranış ve özelliklerin, çoklu gen tarafından düzenlendiği
görülmüştür. Yapılan araştırmalar göstermiştir ki, bireyler arasındaki
davranışsal farklılıkları açıklamak için sadece genlerin incelenmesi yeterli
değildir. Aynı zamanda genlerin işlevini etkileyen çevresel faktörlerin de
dikkate alınması gerekmektedir. Deneyimler, genlerin ifade edilme özelliklerini
değiştirerek bir ömür boyu insan genomu üzerinde ve sonraki kuşaklarda
epigenetik işaretler bırakır ve kişiye özgü davranış kalıplarının oluşumunu
sağlar. Bu derlemede gen ve çevrenin davranışlarımız üzerine olan etkisi ele
alınmış; çağımızın önemli sorunlarından olan antisosyal davranışlar ve şiddetin
genetik yönü tartışılmıştır.

Keywords

gen-çevre etkileşimi, davranış, epigenetik, şiddet

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