Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by dkh on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:17PM
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This is not the sort of thing a genetic test can determine
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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by BurningFrog on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:07PM
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Give it time...
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @12:02PM
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It might not happen. Fingerprints are partly heritable – immigration delay disease, for example, has an identifiable point mutation – but you'd be laughed out of the room if you tried to suggest that given time, we would eventually be able to predict fingerprints from genomes.
Non-heterosexual behaviour can be observed in most social amniotes, even those without fingerprints. Genetically-identical twins do not have identical sexual proclivities. There's no a priori reason to believe there's even a "gay gene" to find.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by BurningFrog on Sunday March 23, 2025 @06:41PM
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I looked it up, and twin studies say sexual orientation is party genetic, but it's far from the only factor.
So at most a perfect genetic test could give a percentage chance of someone being gay/straight.
I guess that's pretty much what you said.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo...
by wizzwizz4 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @06:45PM
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And either gayness is evolutionarily beneficial (kin selection?), or it's so fundamental to amniote psychology that evolution can't get rid of it. (Or both, I guess.)