Gay gene

Do genes make you gay?

gregladen | November 18, 2014

Of course they do. To the extent that genes make you anything in particular, though the role of genetics in human behavior is pretty limited. You've probably heard about the newly reported research in which a genetic link was found to homosexuality in a study of gay brothers. Kelly Servick has a good writeup on it here. The study looked at 409 pairs of gay brothers, and found a region on the X chromosome that was similar across the sample. This sort of shotgun approach, comparing a trait (in this case, gayness) with a bunch of DNA (I oversimplify) is very likely to get results that look real…

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