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Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 6

Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins.


Homosexual behaviour due to genetics and environmental factors

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created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world’s largest study of twins.





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Is political orientation transmitted genetically?

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 06, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

As reported in this week's issue of New Scientist magazine, research by Rice University professor of political science John Alford indicates that what is on one's mind about politics may be influenced by how people are wired ...


Genes influence people's economic choices

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 01, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 0

An international team of researchers including an MIT graduate student has demonstrated for the first time that genes exert influence on people's behavior in a very common experimental economic game.


The genes in your congeniality: Researchers identify genetic influence in social networks

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Can't help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part ...


Twin study indicates genetic basis for processing faces, places

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 18, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study of twins indicates that the genetic foundation for the brain’s ability to recognize faces and places is much stronger than for other objects, such as words. The results, which appear in the December 19 issue of ...


Males with a female twin may be at higher risk for anorexia nervosa

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Males who have a twin sister appear more likely to develop the eating disorder anorexia nervosa than other males, including those with a twin brother, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Ps ...


Twin study identifies factors associated with skin aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smoking, being heavier, not using sunscreen and having had skin cancer appear to be associated with sun damage and aging of skin on the face, according to report based on a study of twins in the December issue of Archives of ...


Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

They say a picture tells a thousand stories, but can it also tell how smart you are? Actually, say UCLA researchers, it can.


No need to split twins for good grades: study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whether or not twins are separated at school, a subject of debate that is often a dilemma for parents, has no affect on their grades, according to a Dutch study published Tuesday.


Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear—and comprehend what both are saying—is an important communication skill that’s heavily influenced by your genes, say researchers ...


Environment key early: Genes' role expands in alcohol dependence

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created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The influence of genetics increases as young women transition from taking their first drink to becoming alcoholics. A team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that although environment ...



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