‘Gay Gene’ Debunked: Do It Matter? | Natnal Review

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• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS
• SCIENCENO SGLE 'GAY GENE', REVEALS THE LARGT-EVER STUDY OF THE GEICS OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR
• SCIENTISTS DEBUNK THE IA THERE IS A 'GAY GENE' THAT DETERM SAME-SEX ATTRACTN
• THERE’S NO EVINCE THAT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ EXISTS
• HUGE STUDY CONCLIVELY DEBUNKS THE "GAY GENE" MYTH
• THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
• THE SHOCKG WAY NEWSPAPERS WROTE ABOUT THE NOW-BUNKED ‘GAY GENE’ 1993

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

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.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A TOTAL MYTH, MASSIVE STUDY CONCLUS

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. “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. 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. No dividual gene alone mak a person gay, lbian or bisexual; stead, thoands of gen likely fluence sexual orientatn, a massive new study of the genom of nearly half a ln people human societi and both sex, between 2% and 10% of people report engagg sex wh a member of the same sex, eher exclively or addn to sex wh a member of the oppose sex, the rearchers said. Related: 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked"Bee is a ntroversial topic, fundg has historilly been limed and recment of participants was difficult, " study -thor Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a senr scientist and putatnal blogist at the geic ttg pany 23andMe, told Live Science.

SCIENCENO SGLE 'GAY GENE', REVEALS THE LARGT-EVER STUDY OF THE GEICS OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVUR

However, the fdg that there's no sgle gay gene do not mean that sexual orientatn is not geic or blogil, and is therefore a liftyle choice. 13 Facts on the History of Marriage51 Sultry Facts About Sex10 Milton Gay Rights HistoryOrigally published on Live Science.

Scientists have aga bunked the ia of a sgle "gay gene", the largt study to date of the geics of same-sex sexual pots:Rearchers snned the human genome for geic markers associated wh same-sex sexual behavurMany gen fluence a person's likelihood of havg had same-sex partners, but they have only a small effect on behavurSome people qutn whether the benefs of this type of rearch outweigh the potential dangersRather, their fdgs pat a diverse and plex picture of human sexualy, and the geic factors that fluence half a ln people took part the study, mostly om the Uned Kgdom and the Uned Stat, which was published the journal Science we've known om prev tw and fay studi that our sexual preferenc are fluenced by our gen, 's been difficult for scientists to ppot whether any specific geic markers uld play a most prev studi have volved only a few hundred or a few thoand participants, this ternatnal llaboratn is at least 100 tim larger and more able to draw robt nclns, the rearchers said. "We tly nsir this a team scientific effort tend to help crease our llective unrstandg of the geics of sexual behavur, which is actually a very, very personal topic for me as a scientist, but also as a gay man, " said study -thor Fah Sathirapongsasuti om geic ttg pany the rearchers didThe data ed the study, which was predomantly drawn om the UK Bbank and 23andMe, looked at the male and female participants' DNA and qutns they had answered about their sexual behavur, cludg whether they'd ever had sex wh someone of the same rearchers snned the entire human genome to fd markers that were signifintly associated wh same-sex sexual the past, some studi have poted to a geic marker on the X chromosome, Xq28, that uld fluence male sexual rearchers didn't fd this marker was signifintly associated wh same-sex behavur. "There is no one 'gay gene', " said study -thor Brendan Zietsch, a psychologist at the Universy of Queensland.

SCIENTISTS DEBUNK THE IA THERE IS A 'GAY GENE' THAT DETERM SAME-SEX ATTRACTN

"The rults suggt we shouldn't measure sexual preference on a sgle ntuum om straight to gay, but rather two separate dimensns, attractn to the same sex and attractn to the oppose sex.

"There's this assumptn that there's a sort of bary om super gay, if I may, to super straight and... ‘Gay Gene’ Debunked: Do It Matter? The rearch bunks the ia that there is a so-lled "gay gene, " say the thors of the study published the journal Science.

THERE’S NO EVINCE THAT A SGLE ‘GAY GENE’ EXISTS

But scientists aren't sure what term whether a person will intify as gay, straight, bisexual, or somewhere else on the spectm of study volved 477, 522 participants. "There is certaly no sgle geic termant (sometim referred to as the "gay gene" the media), " they wrote. the rol of gen homosexual behavr is fanng the bate over whether.

beg gay is due to gen or environment.

“There is no ‘gay gene’ that term. geics acunt for about 32 percent of herabily of homosexual behavr.

HUGE STUDY CONCLIVELY DEBUNKS THE "GAY GENE" MYTH

om pletely heterosexual to homosexual after all. Complited StoryThe notn of a so-lled gay gene, or a sgle geic marker that term a person's sexual orientatn, got tossed out the wdow by a massive new scientists still expect sexual orientatn to at least partially be termed by geics, those not-yet-unrstood factors are far more plex than a sgle geic on/off swch, acrdg to Live Science. The notn of a "gay gene" dat back to a sgle 1993 experiment that was never replited, and now for the first time, nclive rearch n put the theory to rt.

They were also limed by the difficulty of recg homosexual participants, Live Science reports, given that same-sex relatnships are illegal many parts of the MORE: The 'Gay Gene' Is a Total Myth, Massive Study Conclus [Live Science]More on reproductive issu: Advanced Reproductive Technology is Here. 2% of women and men, rpectively, intify as gay. Dpe the numbers, many people still nsir homosexual behavr to be an anomalo choice.

THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS

However, blogists have documented homosexual behavr more than 450 speci, argug that same-sex behavr is not an unnatural choice, and may fact play a val role wh populatns. The hunt for ‘gay gen’.

The 2019 study is the latt a hunt for “gay gen” that began 1993, when Dean Hamer lked male homosexualy to a sectn of the X chromosome. As the ease and affordabily of genome sequencg creased, addnal gene ndidat have emerged wh potential lks to homosexual behavr.

THE SHOCKG WAY NEWSPAPERS WROTE ABOUT THE NOW-BUNKED ‘GAY GENE’ 1993

So-lled genome-wi associatn studi intified a gene lled SLITRK6, which is active a bra regn lled the diencephalon that differs size between people who are homosexual or heterosexual. Wh multiple gene ndidat beg lked to homosexualy, seemed highly unlikely that a sgle “gay” gene exists. In rats, manipulatn of hormon durg pregnancy produc offsprg that exhib homosexual behavr.