Tw pairs which at least one tw is homosexual were soliced through announcements the gay prs and personal referrals om 1980 to the prent. An 18-page qutnnaire on the "sexualy of tws" was filled out by one or both tws. Thirty-eight pairs of monozygotic tws (34 male pairs …
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- LARGT STUDY OF GAY BROTHERS HOM ON 'GAY GEN'
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
LARGT STUDY OF GAY BROTHERS HOM ON 'GAY GEN'
* twin studies gay *
Tw pairs which at least one tw is homosexual were soliced through announcements the gay prs and personal referrals om 1980 to the prent.
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
The biggt study of s kd lks gay men's orientatn wh two regns of the genome picked out prevly – suggtg that beg gay has some geic basis * twin studies gay *
Two sets ntaed a pair of monozygotic tws nrdant for sexual orientatn wh the third triplet dizygotic and disrdant for homosexual orientatn. Fecundy of paternal and maternal non-parental female relativ of homosexual and heterosexual men. Most of the more recent rearch on possible blogil origs of homosexualy has foced on the gree to which gen, along wh other prenatal factors such as hormon and epi-geics, may fluence the velopment of homosexualy.
The former approach of recg intil tws via advertisements gay and lbian publitns is now known to have a very strong “volunteer effect” that produced the appearance of relatively large geic effects (1). Neverthels, even wh the e of large tw registri, the number of intil tw pairs found wh homosexualy is often very small dividual studi, rultg a standard viatn that is greater than the lculated geic effect, meang that the rults are not statistilly different om zero. Whehead and Whehead (1) have prented and discsed, some tail, the and other problems herent tw studi of homosexualy and have prented reasons to expect that the geic fluence on, or ntributn to, homosexualy will eventually be agreed to be the 10%-15% range (i.