Men wh olr brothers are more likely to be gay, acrdg to a study om Universy of Toronto rearchers. The reason may be the maternal immune hypothis.
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MEN WH OLR BROTHERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SUGGTS
* gay older brothers and sisters *
Probably the origal gay brother on televisn, Jack is Andie’s younger siblg.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GAYS AND LBIANS
In the Amerin one, when his olr brother Lip disvers a che of gay pornography the room they share, he first tri to set him up wh a girl. Though they are technilly not siblgs, Sarah Manng’s clone Cosima is openly gay throughout the show and is plenty of relatnships wh girls. And while Nate is g to terms wh the prospect of his own ath, David is stgglg to e to terms wh beg gay.
At the end of season one, the btal murr of a young gay man spurs him to e out of the closet. One of the most inic and long-lastg gay upl on televisn, Mchell and Cameron have, some ways, more of a functnal marriage than that of Mchell’s younger sister Claire and hband Phil. In season one, Gea reveals to Lily and Serena that Eric is gay.
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.