There is no sgle “gay gene,” a new study found. Instead, sexual orientatn is like most other human tras, fluenced by a plex mix of geics and environment.
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- NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- NO SGLE GENE ASSOCIATED WH BEG GAY
- THERE’S NO EVINCE THAT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ EXISTS
- NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ TERM SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVR, DNA ANALYSIS FDS
- IS THERE A "GAY GENE"? MAJOR NEW STUDY SAYS NO
- THERE’S (STILL) NO GAY GENE
- NEWS: NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ TERM... (THE LOS ANGEL TIM) - BEHD THE HEADL
- THERE IS NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE,’ MASSIVE NEW STUDY CONFIRMS
- SCIENCENO SGLE 'GAY GENE', REVEALS THE LARGT-EVER STUDY OF THE GEICS OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR
- MANY GEN INFLUENCE SAME-SEX SEXUALY, NOT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’
- NO SGLE 'GAY GENE' NTRIBUT TO SAME-SEX BEHAVUR, STUDY FDS
NO ‘GAY GENE’: MASSIVE STUDY HOM ON GEIC BASIS OF HUMAN SEXUALY
* no single gay gene *
“There is no ‘gay gene’, ” says lead study thor Andrea Ganna, a geicist at the Broad Instute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge, and his lleagu also ed the analysis to timate that up to 25% of sexual behavur n be explaed by geics, wh the rt fluenced by environmental and cultural factors — a figure siar to the fdgs of smaller studi. There is no sgle gene rponsible for a person beg gay or a lbian. The study of nearly a half ln people clos the door on the bate around the existence of a so-lled “gay gene.
In s stead, the report fds that human DNA nnot predict who is gay or heterosexual. It is worth keepg md that this study only vers some typ of sexualy — gay, lbian and cis-straight — but don’t offer many sights to genr inty.
Humans have tried to unrstand human sexualy for centuri — and geics rearchers joed the ay the early 1990s after a seri of studi on tws suggted homosexualy ran fai. “As a teenager tryg to unrstand myself and unrstand my sexualy, I looked at the ter for “the gay gene” and obvly me across Xq28, ” said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a study -thor and senr scientist at 23andMe, which he joked once led him to believe he hered his gayns om his mother.
THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
(The Los Angel Tim) No sgle ‘gay gene’ term same-sex sexual behavr, DNA analysis fds. Associated rearch fdgs om the Natnal Library of Medice. * no single gay gene *
“We worried a lot about volunteer bias, ” said Bailey, whose rearch clus a wily publicized study on Xq28 and gay brothers om 2018. Sanrs llaborated wh Bailey on those earlier studi and said their work had always admted that there was no sgle “gay gene. The rearchers had members of the same-sex muny review the study’s sign and language, and they adm that their termology and fns for gay, lbian and heterosexual do not reflect the full nature of the sexualy ntuum.
NO SGLE GENE ASSOCIATED WH BEG GAY
There Is no Sgle ‘Gay Gene,’ Massive New Study Confirms * no single gay gene *
In other words, tri to judge if a person leans gay, straight or bisexual. “[Our study] unrsr an important role for the environment shapg human sexual behavr and perhaps most importantly there is no sgle gay gene but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” Neale said.
THERE’S NO EVINCE THAT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ EXISTS
Scientists bunk the ia of a sgle "gay gene" the largt study to date of the geics of same-sex sexual behavur. Their fdgs pat a diverse and plex picture of human sexualy, and the geic factors that fluence . * no single gay gene *
Image source, Getty ImagA geic analysis of almost half a ln people has nclud there is no sgle "gay gene" study, published Science, ed data om the UK Bbank and 23andMe, and found some geic variants associated wh same-sex geic factors acunted for, at most, 25% of same-sex behavur.
NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ TERM SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVR, DNA ANALYSIS FDS
The largt study of s kd found new evince that gen ntribute to same-sex sexual behavur, but echo rearch that says there are no specific gen that make people gay. * no single gay gene *
Advocy group GLAAD said the study nfirmed "no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluenced how a gay or lbian person behav. "There is no sgle gay gene, and a geic tt for if you're gog to have a same-sex relatnship is not gog to work.
"Fah Sathirapongsasuti, senr scientist at 23andMe, add; "This is a natural and normal part of the variatn our speci and that should also support precisely the posn that we shouldn't try and velop gay 'curism'.
IS THERE A "GAY GENE"? MAJOR NEW STUDY SAYS NO
"David Curtis, honorary profsor at the UCL Geics Instute, Universy College London, said: "This study clearly shows that there is no such thg as a 'gay gene'. "Even if homosexualy is not geilly termed, as this study shows, that do not mean that is not some way an nate and dispensable part of an dividual's personaly. "Zeke Stok, om the LGBT media advocy anisatn GLAAD, said: "This new rearch re-nfirms the long-tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav.
THERE’S (STILL) NO GAY GENE
the rol of gen homosexual behavr is fanng the bate over whether.
beg gay is due to gen or environment.
NEWS: NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ TERM... (THE LOS ANGEL TIM) - BEHD THE HEADL
“There is no ‘gay gene’ that term. geics acunt for about 32 percent of herabily of homosexual behavr.
THERE IS NO SGLE ‘GAY GENE,’ MASSIVE NEW STUDY CONFIRMS
om pletely heterosexual to homosexual after all.
A new study that analyzed the DNA of nearly half a ln people has found that, while geic differenc play a signifint role sexual behavr, there is no sgle gene fdgs, which looked at behavr and not sexual inty, bunk the notn of a sgular “gay gene.
SCIENCENO SGLE 'GAY GENE', REVEALS THE LARGT-EVER STUDY OF THE GEICS OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR
9% of men, scribed themselv as lbian or gay, and 5. “This new study provis even more evince that that beg gay or lbian is a natural part of human life, a ncln that has been drawn by rearchers and scientists time and aga, ” GLAAD Chief Programs Officer Zeke Stok said a statement. The work “also renfirms the long-tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav.
New study fds there is no "gay" gene. There's no such thg as a sgle "gay gene" that driv a person's sexual behavr, nclus the largt geic study ever nducted on the issue. "That should also support the posn that we shouldn't try and velop gay cur.
MANY GEN INFLUENCE SAME-SEX SEXUALY, NOT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’
"This new study provis even more evince that that beg gay or lbian is a natural part of human life, a ncln that has been drawn by rearchers and scientists time and aga, " said GLAAD Chief Programs Officer Zeke Stok. This new rearch also renfirms the long-tablished unrstandg that there is no nclive gree to which nature or nurture fluence how a gay or lbian person behav.
NO SGLE 'GAY GENE' NTRIBUT TO SAME-SEX BEHAVUR, STUDY FDS
"This reflects voic om the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer+) muny argug that a range of sexuali exist, " Mills wrote. There is no one gene for beg gay, and though gen seem to play a role termg sexual orientatn and same-sex behavr, ’s small, plex, and anythg but termistic. “There is no sgle gay gene, but rather the ntributn of many small geic effects sttered across the genome, ” he emphasized.
“We know that smell has a strong tie to sexual attractn, but s lks to sexual behavrs are not clear, ” said -thor Andrea Ganna, an stctor at HMS and Massachetts General Hospal om the Instute for Molecular Medice study is part a rponse to gay, lbian, and bisexual people’s cursy about themselv, said Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a senr scientist at 23andMe and -thor on the study, who is himself gay. I looked on the Inter for the ‘gay gene.