> From: palmerbh at sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Dark One)
> Subject: "Gay Gene?"
> genetic research. I have heard that there are theories of a gene
> which influences if a person will develop homosexual or heterosexual
> tendancies. If any of you geneticists or anybody in the groups I'm
> cross-posting to have any information, please e-mail me. Yor input
There is a discussion of putative linkage between male sexual preference
and an X chromosome locus (Dean Hamer, et al., Science 261:321-327 1993)
in the May 1994 Scientific American. I think the odds for linkage are
not compelling, yet. Beware the challenging debate by Byne, however,
it's stuffed with fallacious logic.
Robert Preston
rapr at med.pitt.edu
