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Post by Lone Wanderer on Aug 30, 2019 19:21:29 GMT
But collectively, genes do play a role in orientation. No individual gene alone makes a person gay, lesbian or bisexual; instead, thousands of genes likely influence orientation, a massive new study of the genomes of nearly half a million people suggests. Across human societies and in both sexes, between 2% and 10% of people report engaging in sex with a member of the same sex, either exclusively or in addition to sex with a member of the opposite sex, the researchers said. The biological factors that contribute to orientation are largely unknown, but many scientists suspect that genetics plays a role, given that same-sex behavior appears to run in families and is seen more often in identical twins than in fraternal twins. But a precise genetic basis for orientation has been elusive, largely because scientists previously had relatively small groups of volunteers to investigate. The new study, however, included a much larger number of participants, making the results more statistically reliable than those of the previous, smaller studies. In the largest genetic study of orientation to date, scientists studied a group of about 470,000 volunteers in the United Kingdom and the United States who reported on whether they had ever engaged in same-sex behavior. They relied on genetic data from the UK Biobank (a long-term health and genetics study running in the United Kingdom) and 23andMe, as well as responses to surveys asking questions about identity, attraction, fantasies and behavior. "To give you a sense of the scale of the data, this is approximately 100-times-fold bigger than previous studies on this topic," study lead author Andrea Ganna, a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Medicine in Finland, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told Live Science. The researchers could not find any one gene linked with same-sex behavior. Five genetic variants did appear significantly linked to orientation, and thousands more also seemed involved to a lesser extent. In the end, the scientists could not find any genetic patterns that could be used, in any way, to identify a person's orientation. Instead, the predisposition to same-sex behavior appeared influenced by a complex mix of genetic and environmental influences. That's also the case for many other human traits, such as height. "It's effectively impossible to predict an individual's behavior from their genome," study co-author Ben Neale, a statistical geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told Live Science. www.livescience.com/no-single-gene-makes-someone-gay.html
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Aug 30, 2019 19:30:23 GMT
No single gene associated with being gayA genetic analysis of almost half a million people has concluded there is no single "gay gene". 'Impossible to predict'Ben Neale, an associate professor in the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, who worked on the study, said: "Genetics is less than half of this story for behaviour, but it's still a very important contributing factor. "There is no single gay gene, and a genetic test for if you're going to have a same-sex relationship is not going to work. www.bbc.com/news/health-49484490
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 30, 2019 19:35:00 GMT
So, it's true. I thought it was just a fake.
Lefties gonna go crazy, I guess.
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Post by Elizabeth on Aug 30, 2019 20:17:31 GMT
God doesn't make gays. I told this to people all the time. I also told them it's their brains. So they should seek help because their brain doesn't fuction normally.
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Post by Lone Wanderer on Aug 30, 2019 20:58:59 GMT
God doesn't make gays. I told this to people all the time. I also told them it's their brains. So they should seek help because their brain doesn't fuction normally. As the posted study says, orientation is complicated and nobody can claim he/she is a homosexual-born person. In my opinion, brain/mind plays its own major role in orientation. I really believe a considerable number of LGBTQ community are just heterosexual people who want to try and taste something new/different or they think labeling themselves as gay/lesbian/queer/bisexual is so special (jumping on the bandwagon). But unlike you, I don't deny the existence of real homosexual people. Not all people are straight or even interested in sex. Each human individual is unique.
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Post by Elizabeth on Aug 31, 2019 0:15:48 GMT
God doesn't make gays. I told this to people all the time. I also told them it's their brains. So they should seek help because their brain doesn't fuction normally. As the posted study says, orientation is complicated and nobody can claim he/she is a homosexual-born person. In my opinion, brain/mind plays its own major role in orientation. I really believe a considerable number of LGBTQ community are just heterosexual people who want to try and taste something new/different or they think labeling themselves as gay/lesbian/queer/bisexual is so special (jumping on the bandwagon). But unlike you, I don't deny the existence of real homosexual people. Not all people are straight or even interested in sex. Each human individual is unique. What do you mean? I know homos exist but they exist by choice. They were not bor homo but chose to be homo. And yeah I agree with the other thing you said too.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Aug 31, 2019 4:03:43 GMT
No poof gene? Then Ta ha has NO EXCUSE!
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 31, 2019 9:26:02 GMT
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Post by jonbain on Aug 31, 2019 20:30:49 GMT
Why would this require a massive study, when logic proves the same thing?
How could a homo gene have any survival capacity? How about a suicide gene? Or a gene for gouging your brain out of your ear with a spoon?!
The developmental psychology based on Freudian infantile fixation explains it all quite adequately in numerous cases, even if there are other ways in which it can be conditioned too.
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 4, 2019 5:23:56 GMT
Why would this require a massive study, when logic proves the same thing? How could a homo gene have any survival capacity? How about a suicide gene? Or a gene for gouging your brain out of your ear with a spoon?! The developmental psychology based on Freudian infantile fixation explains it all quite adequately in numerous cases, even if there are other ways in which it can be conditioned too. I agree with you. It's simple common sense but many still need to observe it in action to be sure. It just requires to use logic to know there's no silly genes like that. It would be a catastrophic world if we did have such genes. The world would end as we know it.
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Post by DKTrav88 on Sept 4, 2019 16:37:05 GMT
If there is no gene or pattern of genes that determines homosexuality, then it remains that homosexuality is purely a choice. Studies have shown that there is a link between people who have been sexually abused and homosexuality; the abused become confused(though not all of them) about what is and is not natural and need help in understanding their error.
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Post by thesageofmainstreet on Sept 4, 2019 17:35:11 GMT
Why would this require a massive study, when logic proves the same thing? How could a homo gene have any survival capacity? How about a suicide gene? Or a gene for gouging your brain out of your ear with a spoon?! The developmental psychology based on Freudian infantile fixation explains it all quite adequately in numerous cases, even if there are other ways in which it can be conditioned too. It would be a catastrophic world if we did have such genes. The world would end as we know it. New-Age Sewage DisposalIt's headed that way, but it can be reversed as easily as it was perversed.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Sept 4, 2019 19:04:50 GMT
If there is no gene or pattern of genes that determines homosexuality, then it remains that homosexuality is purely a choice. Studies have shown that there is a link between people who have been sexually abused and homosexuality; the abused become confused(though not all of them) about what is and is not natural and need help in understanding their error. I've hear that some are still trying to take the facts of this research to say that homosexuality is based on genes, but with 8-25% probability.
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