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Contents:
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- CHEMIL TAGS ON DNA APPEAR TO DIFFER BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
For the first time, rearchers have found associatns between homosexualy and markers attached to DNA that n be fluenced by environmental studi and fay tre provi strong evince that sexual orientatn is at least partly geic. When one intil tw is gay, there is about a 20% chance that the other will be as well1. One of the bt characterized is the 'olr brother effect': the chance of a man beg gay creas by 33% for each olr brother he has2.
The 'epi-marks' n be hered, but n also be altered by environmental factors such as smokg, and are not always shared by intil rearchers llected DNA sampl saliva om 37 pairs of intil tws which only one tw was gay, and 10 pairs which both were gay. By snng the tws’ epigenom, the rearchers found five epi-marks that were more mon among the gay men than their geilly intil straight brothers. Ngun says that the rearchers want to replite the study a different group of tws and also terme whether the same marks are more mon gay men than straight men a large and diverse populatn.
“We already know there is no 'gay gene', ” says William Rice, an evolutnary geicist at the Universy of California, Santa Barbara. If there were, he says, would have turned up one of the massive studi that sn the whole genome for variants shared between gay people. The largt such study, led by Sanrs, looked at 409 pairs of gay brothers cludg some non-intil tws.
CHEMIL TAGS ON DNA APPEAR TO DIFFER BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
The rearchers found that gay men shared siari two areas of the genome: the X chromosome and chromosome 83. Rearchers have veloped an algorhm that they say n cly predict homosexualy men based on certa chemil tags their ntroversial rults, which have not yet been published a scientific journal, will be prented Thursday afternoon at a geics nference analyzg five “epigeic” tags — chemils that latch onto DNA and help turn gen on or off — the algorhm n reportedly predict a man’s sexual orientatn wh 67% accuracy, acrdg to Tuck Ngun, who led the work as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.
Michael Bailey, a profsor of psychology at Northwtern Universy, told BuzzFeed News by, who is gay, agre that this rearch is s fancy, and says he has no tentn of makg a mercial tt to predict sexualy. “I was kd of cur about myself — why I turned out like I did, ” he knew he was gay at a young age.
“I didn’t necsarily have a word for at the time, but I knew om like 5 years old that I was not que the same as my other guy iends, ” he is a mon experience among gay people, and one of the reasons why scientists believe that sexual orientatn has a strong blogil ponent. For 37 pairs, one of the tws was gay and the other straight, and for another 10 pairs, both tws were gay.