Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, study suggts

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

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. ”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.

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

The fdgs om German and Canadian scholars showed that men wh olr brothers have a 38% higher likelihood of beg homosexual than men who don’t have an olr brother.

“[Olr] brothers crease the probabily of homosexualy later-born mal, ” read the study’s abstract. The fdgs also showed that the more olr brothers a man had, the higher the likelihood he would be gay. Havg three olr brothers doubled a man’s chanc of beg gay, acrdg to the rearch.

The study also found a rrelatn between mothers givg birth to homosexual mal and havg more children, as pared to moms of straight mal havg fewer children. “[Mothers] of homosexual mal produce more offsprg than the mothers of heterosexual mal, ” the rearchers wrote. “The fascatg study timat that havg an olr brother creas the odds of beg gay by 38 percent, supportg the ia that a mother’s immune rponse to havg a male child fluenc subsequent boys, ” Universy of Cambridge profsor and statistician David Spiegelhalter told the Daily Mail.