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The_Yoda on 27 March 2015
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Aura7541 said:
The_Yoda said:

He would really need to be the one to answer that but he seems to be of the mind that a homosexual has no choice.  I would be more inclined personally to think it is a result of ones experiences in life but what the hell do I know.

I took some time to do some research and apparently, homosexuality is likely caused by epigenetics, not genetics. In case you don't know, epigenetics is the study of cellular and physiological traits not caused by changes in the DNA sequence. More specifically, it is the study of how the transcription from DNA to RNA is altered. What should also be pointed is that epigenetics may or may not be heritable.

Here are two papers that I've found that talks about the link between homosexuality and epigenetics:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668167
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201300033/full

Sweet thanks for sharing what you dug up.  I'll look at those when I have some time to read them without gettting distracted every five seconds.