Moms' Genetics Might Help Produce Gay Sons

[jonolover]

http://pageoneq.com/rssfeedstuff/index.php?id=6137

Discuss.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

1. Somewhere a right-winger's head is exploding

If it's genetic, then it's not a choice.

But if we can screen for it, then we can prevent any more gays being born by aborting them.

But abortion is wrong.

But . . .
But . . .
But . . .

(Boom.)

[NMMNG]

7. I could just imagine them coming up with their first-ever exception

to their rule against abortion. After all, so many of them would rather their child turn out to be a mass-murderer than gay. :eyes:

[sui generis]

8. Here's another assplosion:

Once there is a gay gene and closet "heteros" or people who live the immoral heterosexual LIFESTYLE by choice will be forced to carry driver's license with eye color, hair color, weight, height, and of course sexual orientation . . . by nature.

Yes dearie, your daughter married a queerie.

It would be hilarious actually. It would also mean that choice ain't nobody's business whether or not you're born that way. Some brown-eyed people choose to live the blue-contact lifestyle and vice versa.

[Warpy]

2. yeah, blame Mom

The gay in my family that seems to have passed on the predisposition is my paternal grandfather.

20% of my generation are gay.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. I have a theory

that a combination of elements is involved, among them genetic, behavioral and choice issues. I don't think we need to worry about eradicating the trait in the womb.

[Igel]

4. So, I guess one question is why the mother's biology

preferentially deactives one of the copies of the X chromosome. Is it something about the chromosome, or the rest of the mother's make up?

With the follow-up question being how the X chromosomes are treated in ovum formation. If one X chromosome is preferred, are the ova born by the woman with the dispreferred X chromosome viable? Is there a 50-50% of getting the routinely deactivated X-chromosome?

And is there a correlation between sexual orientation and which X-chromosome variant the guy gets?

The other option is that the X-chromosome that's selected alters something developmentally.

I don't understand this correlation at all. At least birth order can be converted into something that's intuitive: hormone levels, leading to a developmental account, not a genetic one. (Then again, I'm a linguist, not a biologist.)

[xchrom]

5. it's all about the xchrom!

:hi:

[davidinalameda]

6. LOL

:rofl: