Scientists have found even more evidence that sexual orientation is largely determined by genetics, not choice. Natureworldnews.com reports.
A new and groundbreaking study recently published in the journal Psychological Medicine,details how a study of more than 800 gay participants shared notable patterns in two regions of the human genome – one on the X chromosome and one on chromosome 8.
Previous studies have looked into potential genetic drivers of homosexuality, these studies often boasted a significantly smaller sample size or lacked common controls. However, this is the first study of its kind to boast such a robust sample size and also be published in a scientific peer-reviewed paper.
Surprisingly, the team who conducted this study comes from the scientific community that has been hesitant to acknowledge the claims of previous studies, not because of their own opinions, but because of a lack of conclusive data.
The study detailed an in-depth analysis of blood and saliva samples taken from 409 pairs of openly gay brothers, including non-identical twins, from 384 families. The only common characteristic shared by all 818 men was being gay.
It will be recalled that Nigeria’s President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan earlier this year signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill into law which sparked international outrage worldwide.
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