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" a review of 75 male psychiatric patients with extra Y chromosome diagnosed in Leuven in the period 1968-1993. among 98,725 patients referred for constitutional chromosomal analysis. attention was given to their mental performance and psychosocial functioning. out of fifty males, 47 XYY karyotype were diagnosed. this is very close to the incidence of XYY in newborn studies and indicates that the frequency of MR/MCA is not increased in XYY males in general. in the 60 patients with "pure" Y chromosome polysomy, the most frequent indication for karyotyping was the presence of MR and/or characterological problems in the index patients. mental retardation was mostly borderline to mild, and severe mental retardation was rare. characterological problems, difficulties in psychosocial integration and psychiatric problems were found in 86% of the mentally retarded versus 24% of the mentally normal men. the 48 ,XXYY syndrome is characterized by markedly frequent and severe behavioural and psychiatric problems. "

used.&.abused

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you promised me you'd call,

meat eating orchids forgive no-one just yet

cut myself on angels hair and baby's breath

broken hymen of your highness, i'm left black

throw down your umbilical noose so i can climb right back

faces/

I walked into your house this morning; I brought the gun from our end table; Your blood was strewn across the walls; They'll find you on your bathroom floor.