Study that looked at 409 pairs of Gay Brothers nfirms Chromosome X lk to Homosexualy

Contents:

• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
• BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS
• STUDY THAT LOOKED AT 409 PAIRS OF GAY BROTHERS NFIRMS CHROMOSOME X LK TO HOMOSEXUALY
• FEATURED STORI
• MEN WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
• BARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER CLAIMS HE’S ‘FELY GAY’ – MEDIA

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS

Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study published Wednday the journal Proceedgs of the Royal Society B. This new report builds upon prev rearch regardg male birth orr and homosexualy, though there is still no cisive ncln as to why there’s a lk between the cross-analyzg data om 10 scientific studi wh more than 5, 000 subjects, rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were 38 percent more likely to intify as gay.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

”The study, which pared the probabily of the youngt brother a two-son fay beg gay as pared to the olst son, did not clu female subjects, as prev rearch has tablished that women do not fluence the sexual orientatn of their younger siblgs, acrdg to this study did not terme a ncrete reason for the rrelatn between a man havg an olr brother and intifyg as gay, Blanchard said that “pots toward the need for more rearch on the 'maternal immune hypothis'” — a theory Blanchard troduced 1996 that suggts that a mother is exposed to “male-specific substanc” durg pregnancy wh or the birth of a son. Acrdg to proponents of the theory, the mother’s immune rponse is changed durg the pregnancy of a boy, creasg the likelihood that a subsequent male child would be gay. In 1996, the psychologists Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert published a paper ntendg that homosexualy was more mon men who had olr brothers.

BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS

"In [Wtern] societi, homosexual men are femized at var levels and they have more olr brothers than heterosexual men, " state the thors of the study. "To evaluate whether femy and the aternal birth orr effect are universal featur of male homosexual preference or not, we llected origal data om homosexual men, heterosexual men, and heterosexual women om Java (Indonia). The rearchers examed data om 116 homosexual men and 62 heterosexual men om wtern and central Java.

Consistent wh Blanchard and Bogaert's fdgs Wtern societi, they found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr brothers than heterosexual men.

To be specific, homosexual men their sample had an average of 0. Intertgly, the rearchers also found that homosexual men were more likely to have olr sisters, although this difference was smaller than the olr brother difference. The rearchers then tted whether homosexualy was visible the facial featur of Indonians.

STUDY THAT LOOKED AT 409 PAIRS OF GAY BROTHERS NFIRMS CHROMOSOME X LK TO HOMOSEXUALY

Usg standardized photographs of heterosexual and homosexual Indonian men, the rearchers found that men wh olr brothers were perceived to have more feme facial featur than men whout olr brothers.

They did not, however, fd that homosexual men were any more femized their facial featur than heterosexual men. The thors wre, "Taken together, the rults suggt the prence of a femizg factor associated wh male homosexualy that is partially termed by male birth orr. Homosexualy has been a long-standg pot of nfn for evolutnary psychologists.

FEATURED STORI

Male Homosexual Preference: Femy and the Olr Brother Effect Indonia. How Olr Brothers Influence HomosexualyHomosexualy might be partly driven by a mother’s immune rponse to her male fet—which creas wh each son she MacGregor / RtersHere’s what we know: Homosexualy is normal.

MEN WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY

Between 2 and 11 percent of human adults report experiencg some homosexual feelgs, though the figure vari wily pendg on the survey.

BARACK OBAMA’S BROTHER CLAIMS HE’S ‘FELY GAY’ – MEDIA

Homosexualy exists across cultur and even throughout the animal kgdom, as the thors of a mammoth new review paper on homosexualy wre.