France legalizes gay marriage despite angry protests

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Tom3k said:

Slimebeast said:

I suppose. Those are the ones I am aware of since I studied the subject over 10 years ago in med school (on a small litterature study I made, actually promoting the theory that homosexuality is geneticially linked and evolutionary selected for through the kin-mechanism).

I'm not updated though, but one would think they should have found other markers by now (if there really is strong disposition for this trait). But I haven't read any big news about it so I suspect they haven't made any major discoveries yet.

Do you have some interesting to tell us about the whole thing?

The existence or even relevance of HMS 1 was never independently confirmed, and the "gene" itself was in 2007 withdrawn by HGNC. If you do an Entrez search for "homosexuality" you'll see that the only result you'll get is the (withdrawn) HMS 1. There isn't anything new.

From the studies I've read recently the current focus seems to be on epigentics.

(And I would argue that there is significant biological difference between ADHD and homosexuality. To see what I mean do an Entrez search for "Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder").

Could you elaborate?

(I did the search but it came with so many results so I don't know what to read. I know that, as far as we know, ADHD seems to be inherited much strongly than homosexuality, in other words the ADHD genetical markers are much more significant than the ones linked to homosexuality, but I don't know what you mean when you say "significant biological difference").