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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @12:02PM (#43453792)
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 (#43456488)
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 (#43456505)
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.)