Re: What is this nonsense about the gay gene?

dIGITS (digits@tribeca.ios.com)
13 Nov 1995 02:23:19 GMT

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Angelique Skiman (ang42@sfsu.edu) wrote:

: Can anyone tell me about the study recently conducted that has
: supposedly found a gay gene on the X chromosome? This seems very unlikely
: to me. There is such a wide variety of sexual behavior that I doubt a
: single gene makes a person gay. If such a gene exists, wouldn't it make
: sense that women would not be gay? If they have two X chromosomes, wouldn't
: the "normal" X mask the effects of the gay gene? However, there obviously
: are a lot of gay women out there.

I agree that genetic research has a long way to go before such determination
can be proven.

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