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Extensive Study: No ‘Gay Gene’; ‘Effectively Impossible’ To Predict Sexuality

John Bickley
Extensive Study: No ‘Gay Gene’; ‘Effectively Impossible’ To Predict Sexuality
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A new study involving 493,001 participants from the U.K., U.S., and Sweden — by far the most extensive of its kind — found that it is “effectively impossible to predict an individual’s sexual behavior from their genome.”

The study found no single “gay gene” and concludes that the link between genetics, environment, and sexual orientation is extremely complicated, with thousands of genetic variants potentially having some degree of influence on behavior.

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