Contents:
- NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
- HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
- OF MICE AND GAY MEN
NO, CHE SCIENTISTS DID NOT MAKE GAY MICE
2% of women and men, rpectively, intify as gay.
HAS THE “GAY GENE” BEEN FOUND FEMALE MICE?
Dpe the numbers, many people still nsir homosexual behavr to be an anomalo choice.
However, blogists have documented homosexual behavr more than 450 speci, argug that same-sex behavr is not an unnatural choice, and may fact play a val role wh populatns.
OF MICE AND GAY MEN
The hunt for ‘gay gen’. The 2019 study is the latt a hunt for “gay gen” that began 1993, when Dean Hamer lked male homosexualy to a sectn of the X chromosome.
As the ease and affordabily of genome sequencg creased, addnal gene ndidat have emerged wh potential lks to homosexual behavr. So-lled genome-wi associatn studi intified a gene lled SLITRK6, which is active a bra regn lled the diencephalon that differs size between people who are homosexual or heterosexual.