Are Younger Brothers More Likely to Be Gay? | Psychology Today

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• BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS
• ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

BOYS WH OLR BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, STUDY SAYS

New rearch found that havg an olr brother creas men’s chanc of beg gay, acrdg to a study published Wednday the journal Proceedgs of the Royal Society B. The fdgs om German and Canadian scholars showed that men wh olr brothers have a 38% higher likelihood of beg homosexual than men who don’t have an olr brother. “[Olr] brothers crease the probabily of homosexualy later-born mal, ” read the study’s abstract.

The fdgs also showed that the more olr brothers a man had, the higher the likelihood he would be gay. Havg three olr brothers doubled a man’s chanc of beg gay, acrdg to the rearch. The study also found a rrelatn between mothers givg birth to homosexual mal and havg more children, as pared to moms of straight mal havg fewer children.

ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?

“[Mothers] of homosexual mal produce more offsprg than the mothers of heterosexual mal, ” the rearchers wrote. “The fascatg study timat that havg an olr brother creas the odds of beg gay by 38 percent, supportg the ia that a mother’s immune rponse to havg a male child fluenc subsequent boys, ” Universy of Cambridge profsor and statistician David Spiegelhalter told the Daily Mail.

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