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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.
ARE YOUNGER BROTHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY?
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.
“[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.
Ined, no particular pattern of siblgs, their genr or their age appeared to terme whether a female would be gay.