Your Bad Driving May Be Genetic
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 11:29
in Health & Medicine
Are accident rates higher for people with a particular gene variant? 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. read more