There’s no ‘gay gene,’ but geics are lked to same-sex behavr, new study says - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• NEW STUDY FDS GEICS INFLUENCE LGBTQ SEXUALY, BUT STILL NO 'GAY GENE'
• DO GAY N  FAI?
• WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY: NEW STUDY CLAIMS TRA IS PASSED OM MOTHERS TO SONS AND OM FATHERS TO DGHTERS
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS
• DO HAVG OLR BROTHERS INCREASE MEN’S CHANC OF BEG GAY? HERE’S WHAT THE STUDI SAY
• A 'GAY GENE'? IT'S PLITED, ACRDG TO NEW REARCH ON SAME-SEX BEHAVR

NEW STUDY FDS GEICS INFLUENCE LGBTQ SEXUALY, BUT STILL NO 'GAY GENE'

If that’s te, uldn’t patterns of homosexualy n fai? Y, a growg body of knowledge is ditg that homosexualy n n fai, although this often has been hidn many s and not discsed openly. Acrdg to thors Barbara and Allan Pease, there is a greater chance of a male beg gay if he has brothers, uncl, s, or parents (more on the mother’s si) who are also gay.

DO GAY N  FAI?

A iend of me recently disvered—to his great surprise—that his mother was lbian and that two maternal s are gay (one male and one female) along wh a paternal uncle. So his se, homosexualy shows up on both sis of his fay at least two generatns. Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock Universy Ontar Canada reported that the risk of beg gay creas wh the number of olr brothers.

WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY: NEW STUDY CLAIMS TRA IS PASSED OM MOTHERS TO SONS AND OM FATHERS TO DGHTERS

A 1995 news release om Stanford Universy dited that the probabily that the brother of a gay man is gay is about four tim higher than normal. However, male homosexualy and lbianism tend to n different fai: sisters wh gay brothers are not more likely than normal to be lbian. A 1993 study that traced the pedigree of pairs of gay brothers found that homosexualy tends to n on the maternal si of the fay tree: the brothers had a higher than average number of maternal nephews and uncl who are gay.

Scientists, led by Dean Hamer, an Aids rearcher at the US Natnal Cancer Instute, studied the fay histori of 114 gay mal and found that 13. 5 percent of the gay men's brothers were also homosexual, pared wh 2 percent the general populatn.

They also found that maternal uncl and maternal male s were more likely to be homosexual. In some of the fai, gay relativ uld be traced back three generatns. We prent an overview of behavral geics rearch on homosexual and heterosexual orientatn.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

Fay, tw, and adoptee studi dite that homosexualy and th heterosexualy n fai.

We note observatns of homosexual behavr animal speci, but the analogy to human sexual orientatn is unclear.

We discs the reproductive disadvantage of a homosexual orientatn and prent possible mechanisms that uld mata a balanced polymorphism human populatns. No 'gay gene': Massive study hom on geic basis of human sexualy. Heterosexual Male Carriers Could Expla Persistence of Homosexualy Men: Individual-Based Simulatns of an X-Lked Inherance Mol.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

A crique of the possibily of geic herance of homosexual orientatn.

THERE’S NO ONE ‘GAY GENE,’ BUT GEICS ARE LKED TO SAME-SEX BEHAVR, NEW STUDY SAYS

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Homosexual orientatn tws: a report on 61 pairs and three triplet sets. Is homosexualy faial? CHICAGO (AP) The largt study of s kd found new evince that gen ntribute to same-sex sexual behavr, but echo rearch that says there are no specific gen that make people gay.

DO HAVG OLR BROTHERS INCREASE MEN’S CHANC OF BEG GAY? HERE’S WHAT THE STUDI SAY

Adults intified five geic variants not prevly lked wh gay or lbian sexualy.

Importantly, most participants were asked about equency of same-sex sexual behavr but not if they self-intified as gay or lbian. ”Former Natnal Instut of Health geicist Dean Hamer said the study nfirms “that sexualy is plex and there are a lot of gen volved, ” but isn’t really about gay people.

“Havg jt a sgle same sex experience is pletely different than actually beg gay or lbian, ” Hamer said. His rearch the 1990s lked a marker on the X chromosome wh male homosexualy. There’s a streak of gayns nng through at least three generatns of my father’s fay.

A 'GAY GENE'? IT'S PLITED, ACRDG TO NEW REARCH ON SAME-SEX BEHAVR

Of the twelve my grandfather’s generatn, there were two who were possibly gay, though of urse no one ever talked about , so there’s no way be certa. So much for the proverbial gay 10%. And this nnectedns has allowed me to see my beg gay as somethg much larger than me.