Should one single male gene stop you from marrying him?

In a recent report, it shows that to find out if you man is marriage material, you just need to look into his genes, that’s genes, not jeans! Or at least this is what women are encouraged to think after a new study on genes linked to arginine vasopressin - a hormone that’s found in mammals, helps bodies retain water, and has been linked to mate stability in prairie voles.

It turns out by looking into the report of Swedish men’s DNA, next to the gene responsible for vasopressin sensitivity and much more prone to having problems in their marriage, plus its less likely if they get married to start with, than those without the variations.

It seems from this research the media rushed into writing about the “divorce Gene” saying if a man had one or another type of gene it would determine he would make a good husband.

Although there is a strong link between a gene and a social outcome, but we must remember the gene is only slightly interesting, what really matters, according to the researchers themselves, are the neural network implicated by the gene. So sorry to disappoint and give you the less glamorous thought of a single gene being responsible for a marriage failing, but this is by far more accurate.

Source: blog.wired