Re: Gay/Lesbian Gene
From: William Morse (wdmorse_at_twcny.rr.com)
Date: 03/30/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:15:12 -0500 (EST)
andrewedwardjudd@hotmail.com wrote in news:d2c0sk$1tno$1
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> William Morse wrote:
>>
>> It appears to be true that there is a genetic component to
> homosexuality,
>> including data based on comparison of identical twins vs. paternal
> twins
>> - the odds of being homosexual are higher if one's identical twin is
>> homosexual than if one's paternal twin is homosexual. The topic is
>> obviously controversial, and it is difficult to see why any genes
>> associated with homosexuality would not be strongly selected against.
>
>
> Given that Identical twins have unique relationships between each other
> not shared by fraternal twins, **and** given that there are theories
> that family relationships are involved in the creation of male
> homosexuality **and** given that twin studies ignore the unique twin
> relationships it seems probable that there is no homosexual gene and
> probable that the classical twin study method is fatally flawed.
Based on your reply it is quite obvious that you did not bother to read
the article I referred to in my original follow. Since the issues are
rather complex, I see little point in continuing this discussion,
especially since you raise the straw man of a "homosexual gene", which no
one said existed. Problems with the twin study method are being debated
in a different thread.
Yours,
Bill Morse
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