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Two gene variants have been found to be more mon gay men. New Scientist looks at what this tells about the way blogy shap our sexualy

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SEARCH FOR 'GAY GEN' COM UP SHORT IN LARGE NEW STUDY

The gay gene was first intified 1993 as a rrelatn between the geic marker Xq28 and gay male sexualy. The rults of this origal study were never replited, and the blogil realy of such an enty remas hypothetil. However, spe such tenuo provenance, the gay gene has p … * gay genes research *

In an terview, she said the study is further evince that prev reports of a "gay gene" on the X chromosome are wrong.

THE LIFE OF THE GAY GENE: OM HYPOTHETIL GEIC MARKER TO SOCIAL REALY

And bee the rearchers didn't fd gene variants that rrelated wh a gradient of sexual behavr, she says, unrcuts Aled Ksey's s-old sle, which ranked people on a spectm of sexualy, om exclively heterosexual to exclively homosexual.

THERE’S (STILL) NO GAY GENE

The life of the gay gene: om hypothetil geic marker to social realy.

The gay gene was first intified 1993 as a rrelatn between the geic marker Xq28 and gay male sexualy.

However, spe such tenuo provenance, the gay gene has persisted as a reference science news, popular science wrgs, and prs releas and edorials about bmedil rearch. An examatn of the life of the gay gene U. News media monstrat that the gay gene has bee an assumed back-story to geic sexualy rearch over time, and that the crique of s very existence has been dimished.

NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY

Latterly, the gay gene has entered to the onle bmedil databas of the 21st century wh the same pattern of persistence and dimishg crique.

Prs and onle databas to reprent the procs through which the addrs of the gay gene has shifted and bee an x of bmedilizatn.

The nsequent unmoorg of the gay gene om acuntabily and accuracy monstrat that the anizatn of bmedil databas uld benef om greater cross-disciplary attentn. NIH's "gay gene" study qutned.

WHAT DO THE NEW ‘GAY GEN’ TELL ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN?

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