The Biology of Sexual Orientation
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Gay DNA found
In the first-ever study combing the entire human genome for genetic determinants of male sexual orientation, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has identified several areas that appear to influence whether a man is straight or gay.
UIC's Brian Mustanski, working with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, found stretches of DNA that appeared to be linked to sexual orientation on three different chromosomes in the nucleus of cells of the human male.
"There is no one 'gay' gene," said Mustanski, a psychologist in the UIC department of psychiatry and lead author of the study. "Sexual orientation is a complex trait, so it's not surprising that we found several DNA regions involved in its expression."
"Our best guess is that multiple genes, potentially interacting with environmental influences, explain differences in sexual orientation."
In the first-ever study combing the entire human genome for genetic determinants of male sexual orientation, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has identified several areas that appear to influence whether a man is straight or gay.
UIC's Brian Mustanski, working with colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, found stretches of DNA that appeared to be linked to sexual orientation on three different chromosomes in the nucleus of cells of the human male.
"There is no one 'gay' gene," said Mustanski, a psychologist in the UIC department of psychiatry and lead author of the study. "Sexual orientation is a complex trait, so it's not surprising that we found several DNA regions involved in its expression."
"Our best guess is that multiple genes, potentially interacting with environmental influences, explain differences in sexual orientation."
^LOL!! So true.. Basically the same hell-bound scumbags we're all used to, with a combined accumulation of 50,000 posts and 10,000 started threads (half of them about religion in some way). Tireless. They're the only 5 crabs left in the bucket, which is why I suggested one not take them seriously. What secure, sound-minded individual would? I never have..
thanks
here's the actual link:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/3xcxqtb6x36aaap1/fulltext.html
Only problem is they didn't use SNP chips, they had only 403 microsatelite markers so they probably missed a lot of interesting stuff but of course this is from 2005 so you can expect that much from a genomic paper published around that time
Still they find Shh and Nrg, GNRH1 and STAR, which makes sense, not much is known about the other genes
ParkBoyz said:
^LOL!! So true.. Basically the same hell-bound scumbags we're all used to, with a combined accumulation of 50,000 posts and 10,000 started threads (half of them about religion in some way). Tireless. They're the only 5 crabs left in the bucket, which is why I suggested one not take them seriously. What secure, sound-minded individual would? I never have..
ParkBoyz said:
^LOL!! So true.. Basically the same hell-bound scumbags we're all used to, with a combined accumulation of 50,000 posts and 10,000 started threads (half of them about religion in some way). Tireless. They're the only 5 crabs left in the bucket, which is why I suggested one not take them seriously. What secure, sound-minded individual would? I never have..
I can do that, easily
I mean science that has nothing to do with destroying yet another religious myth...
How much interest do you think they will attract??
^^It wouldn't matter since by siccness standards, they are inextricably connected due to the insecure nature of its users who are too savage and unstable to maintain a topical conversation without veering off into space. Many on here at least feign interest in science, yet easily diverge into quarrelsome religious onslaughts, creating the long established dichotomy we see presently. Hence my initial comment that this forum has went to shit...
ParkBoyz said:
^LOL!! So true.. Basically the same hell-bound scumbags we're all used to, with a combined accumulation of 50,000 posts and 10,000 started threads (half of them about religion in some way). Tireless. They're the only 5 crabs left in the bucket, which is why I suggested one not take them seriously. What secure, sound-minded individual would? I never have..