Comments on: New Paper Proposes Epigenetic Pathway to Homosexuality (UPDATED)

By: Warren Throckmorton

Warren Throckmorton — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:48:06 +0000

@Karen – Yes, hope to next week and if not then after the holidays…

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:48:06 +0000

@ Warren

You have been properly ‘cited’ in the ‘correction’. Good.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:46:44 +0000

If this has already been discussed, please be patient with my question.

One of my sisters-in law is a twin – her orientation is completely straight and her fraternal twin sister’s orientation is gay. Since they have the same father who could have passed on the epi mark that was not erased, wouldn’t both babies be affected in the womb or would that be applied to identical twins only?

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:46:44 +0000

Something that probably does need a ‘closer look’ is the relationship between GI and SO. One of my closest friends is a transgendered woman and the sense from my many conversation with her is that they really are almost entirely separate matters. There’s also a problem with ‘categories’: she’s a transgendered woman who is attracted to women. What does that make her? Heterosexual? Lesbian? What?

Perhaps we should ‘take seriously’ GI, before seeking to ‘categorize’ SO? I don’t know (I’m just ‘thinking aloud’).

By: Gregory Peterson

Gregory Peterson — Wed, 30 May 2018 19:46:43 +0000

Don’t forget micro-RNA in gene regulation…though if that could have anything to do with expressions of sexuality, I wouldn’t know. I’m an artist.

I vaguely wonder if epigenetics could explain the difficult to diagnose expression of my pernicious anemia. Talk about a kick in the head… At least I’m not going weirdly blind anymore.