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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know but I read the being gay comes through the mother's genes anyway, if that's the issue.[/quote]

That sounds fake. No one knows how people become gay or even if it is genetic versus environmental[/quote]

I'm not a scientist. That's just something I heard.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/14/genes-influence-male-sexual-orientation-study

"The work has yet to be published, but confirms the findings of a smaller study that sparked widespread controversy in 1993, when Dean Hamer, a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, investigated the family histories of more than 100 gay men and found homosexuality tended to be inherited. More than 10% of brothers of gay men were gay themselves, compared to around 3% of the general population. Uncles and male cousins on the mother's side had a greater than average chance of being gay, too."[/quote]

Here's another one:

https://www.livescience.com/7056-mom-genetics-produce-gay-sons.html[/quote]

If there's a maternal link, I think it's just as likely to be related to abnormal gut flora (which almost every woman has these days due to the unnatural way we live) than genetics per se. I don't know enough about epigenetics, but I heard that they're heavily influenced by many factors including gut flora.[/quote]

I worked as a research assistant on this study while attending Northwestern. The study was not completed at the time when I left school, so I do not know the result, nor if anything conclusive was discovered. My understanding of the research was that there was evidence that there is a genetic component to sexual orientation and that women produce a particular hormone with the birth of each male child that increases the likelihood of subsequent male children birthed by that woman being homosexual. The study focused on gay brothers for that reason. Though there was talk of looking at lesbians as well in the future. Again, nothing conclusive was published stating that it was linked to the mother; however, that was one of the theories being investigated based on my understanding of the research.[/quote]

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