{"id":513,"date":"2019-09-04T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:47:44","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gay-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no gay gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very apt title, in my opinion at least. And then it comes to genetic explanations of diseases, I guess an even more apt addition would be &#8220;another one bites the dust&#8221;. Recently, I posted about the complete and utter failure of the genetic hypothesis to explain depression. That indictment on the genetic link in depression was written by no other but an actual &#8220;industry insider&#8221; (read: a psychiatrist).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"pD4AjHgsaR\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=118\">There is no &#8220;Depression Gene&#8221;, and any &#8220;evidence&#8221; of a genetic cause so far has been fairy tales<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;There is no &#8220;Depression Gene&#8221;, and any &#8220;evidence&#8221; of a genetic cause so far has been fairy tales&#8221; &#8212; To Extract Knowledge from Matter\" src=\"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=118&#038;embed=true#?secret=PAlPS6lZuG#?secret=pD4AjHgsaR\" data-secret=\"pD4AjHgsaR\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, a study claims the same may be true of (homo)sexual orientation. According to that study, at most 25% of homosexuality may be linked to genetic &#8220;hints&#8221; and even then because of the gene-wide-associations (GWA), no specific genes, or even association\/cluster of genes can be used to predict when an offspring will have homosexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9549243\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9549243<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02585-6\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02585-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Nearly half a million genomes reveal five DNA markers associated with sexual behaviour \u2014 but none with the power to predict the sexuality of an individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<strong>The largest study<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-02585-6#ref-CR1\" data-track=\"click\" data-action=\"anchor-link\" data-track-label=\"go to reference\" data-track-category=\"references\">1<\/a><\/sup> to date on the genetic basis of sexuality has revealed five spots on the human genome that are linked to same-sex sexual behaviour \u2014 but <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">none of the markers are reliable enough to predict someone\u2019s sexuality<\/span><\/strong>. The findings, which are published on 29 August in\u00a0<i>Science<\/i> and based on the genomes of nearly 500,000 people, shore up the results of earlier, smaller studies and confirm the suspicions of many scientists: while sexual preferences have a genetic component, <strong>no single gene has a large effect on sexual behaviours<\/strong>. \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>There is no \u2018gay gene\u2019<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d says lead study author Andrea Ganna, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very apt title, in my opinion at least. 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