The shockg way newspapers wrote about the 'gay gene' 1993

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• IS THIS HOW HOMOSEXUALY EVOLVED? GEN LKED TO SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR ARE ALSO FOUND STRAIGHT PEOPLE AND E THEM TO HAVE MORE PARTNERS - OUTWEIGHG THE 'LOSS' OF REPRODUCTN AMONG GAY PEOPLE, STUDY CLAIMS
• THERE IS NO SUCH THG AS A SGLE 'GAY GENE': SCIENTISTS FD HOMOSEXUALY IS LIKELY ED BY A BATN OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEIC FACTORS
• THE SHOCKG WAY NEWSPAPERS WROTE ABOUT THE NOW-BUNKED ‘GAY GENE’ 1993
• 'GAY GENE' SURVIV THROUGH GENERATNS AS FEMALE RELATIV OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN 'HAVE MORE BABI'
• HAVE SCIENTISTS FALLY FOUND THE 'GAY GENE'? MAJOR NEW STUDY OF 800 BROTHERS BACKS CLAIMS SEXUALY IS OUR GEN

IS THIS HOW HOMOSEXUALY EVOLVED? GEN LKED TO SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR ARE ALSO FOUND STRAIGHT PEOPLE AND E THEM TO HAVE MORE PARTNERS - OUTWEIGHG THE 'LOSS' OF REPRODUCTN AMONG GAY PEOPLE, STUDY CLAIMS

Gen lked to same-sex sexual behavur are also found straight people — where they are associated wh havg more sexual partners, a study has a matg advantage uld outweigh the 'loss' of reproductn among gay dividuals and expla the persistence of the gen throughout human is the ncln of rearchers led om the Universy of Queensland, who studied the genom of 477, 522 people om both the UK and the US. Gen lked to same-sex sexual behavur (pictured) are also found straight people — where they are associated wh havg more sexual partners, a study has found (stock image) Rearchers led om the Universy of Queensland, who studied the genom of 477, 522 people om both the UK and the US g data om both the UK Bbank and 23andMeOTHER THEORIES The new hypothis put forward by Profsor Zietsch and lleagu is the not the only one to offer an explanatn for how to rencile a geic basis for homosexual behavur wh evolutnary leadg ia reli on the notn of k selectn — and is sometim dubbed the 'gay uncle' this theory, homosexual dividuals support their relativ — such as by helpg provi rourc, food and protectn — thereby ensurg a ntuatn of their fay's gen, if at the st of their way, om an evolutnary perspective, the broar benefs of same-sex sexual behavur uld outweigh the apparent drawbacks. Pictured: a gay uple (stock image)The team has warned, however, that their study wh a number of limatns and that, acrdgly, the fdgs should be terpreted wh geic data analysed the study, they noted, was llected only om dividuals of European anctry — meang that ptur but a actn of human geic and behavural diversy.

THERE IS NO SINGLE 'GAY GENE'Scientists have long sought to quantify the extent to which geic and non-geic (or environmental) factors impact a person's preference for same-sex relatnships. Var studi have hted that geic factors were plex, but their relatively small sl ma hard to draw reliable one study, rearchers ed data om over 470, 000 people, over a 100 tim more than prev nfirmed that homosexualy stems om both environmental and geic than their beg one sgle 'gay gene', however, the team found thoands of plac — or loci — the genome that seem to play a role five of the had a 'signifint' impact — and, bed, all the factors acunted for only 8–25% of the variatn sexual attractn between different factors at play are so plex that is impossible to predict om a person's DNA whether they are attracted to members of the same-sex or not. Preference for same-sex relatnships is termed by both environmental and assorted geic factors, a large-sle study has means that there is no such thg as a sgle 'gay gene' that term your sexual preferenc — jt like many other human tras.

THERE IS NO SUCH THG AS A SGLE 'GAY GENE': SCIENTISTS FD HOMOSEXUALY IS LIKELY ED BY A BATN OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEIC FACTORS

Prev studi had hted that geic factors were plex, but their relatively small sl ma hard to draw reliable the new study, rearchers ed data om over 470, 000 people, over a 100 tim more than prev nfirmed that homosexualy stems om both environmental and geic than their beg one sgle 'gay gene', however, the team found thoands of plac - or loci - the genome that seem to play a role five of the had a 'signifint' impact — and, bed, all the factors acunted for only 8–25% of the variatn sexual attractn between different factors at play are so plex that is impossible to predict om a person's DNA whether they are attracted to members of the same-sex or not. 'There is certaly no sgle geic termant - sometim referred to as the "gay gene” the media.

'This fdg overturns the suggtn of a prev study, 1993, which reported fdg a geic marker more monly found gay men that is passed down the X chromosome om mother to child.

This means that there is no such thg as a sgle 'gay gene' that term your sexual preferenc — jt like many other human tras (stock image)The team also termed that the geic fluence on same-sex behavur is slightly different between men and women, wh the overlap between the sex beg lower for sexual preferenc that for other behavural tras. Members of LGBT rights group OutRage at the Lbian and Gay Pri event, London 1993 (Photo by Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty Imag).

THE SHOCKG WAY NEWSPAPERS WROTE ABOUT THE NOW-BUNKED ‘GAY GENE’ 1993

A rurfaced newspaper clippg about the now-bunked ‘gay gene’ has unrled jt how much has changed for gay rights. Rearch published this week nfirmed that there is no sgle gene that people to be gay, although geic factors do hold a signifint sway over people’s sexualy.

The notn of a sgular gay gene was first suggted by a study 1993, and at the time, there was a bonanza of verage the Brish media.

In 1993, Daily Mail claimed gay gene fdgs ‘raise abortn hop’. When the Daily Mail newspaper wrote about the fdg 1993, did so unr the headle “Abortn hope after ‘gay gen’ fdg”.

'GAY GENE' SURVIV THROUGH GENERATNS AS FEMALE RELATIV OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN 'HAVE MORE BABI'

The article rais the prospect of genics, claimg: “Isolatn of the gen [that e homosexualy] means uld soon be possible to predict whether a baby will be gay and give the mother the optn of an abortn. Here’s how a natnal newspaper wrote about ‘gay gen’ 1993.

The Mail article predicted that the rearch is “likely to e a storm among radil gay and pro-life groups as well as medil tert groups already ncerned about the ethics of rearch on human gen”.

HAVE SCIENTISTS FALLY FOUND THE 'GAY GENE'? MAJOR NEW STUDY OF 800 BROTHERS BACKS CLAIMS SEXUALY IS OUR GEN

Gay gene abortn bate was lled out at the time.

The suggtn of abortg gay babi was raised several other outlets at the time, though many exprsed their revulsn wh the ia.

Meanwhile, ITN rried an terview wh a shopper at London’s Gay’s the Word bookshop, who asked: “What kd of society is where people would even ntemplate rryg out an abortn jt bee the unborn child might be gay?