ReviewHuman biology1998
Human sexual orientation has a heritable component.
Review in Human biology, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Probing the genomic landscape of human sexuality: a critical systematic review of the literature.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Pooled it
- Biodevelopmental Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Men: Evidence from a Polish Sample.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Biological, genetic, neurological and environmental influences on homosexuality-a narrative review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Genetic variants underlying human bisexual behavior are reproductively advantageous.Science advances · 2024Article
- What can the eyes tell us about atypical sexual preferences as a function of sex and age? Linking eye movements with child-related chronophilias.Forensic sciences research · 2023Review
- Genomic evidence consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy may help explain the evolutionary maintenance of same-sex sexual behaviour in humans.Nature human behaviour · 2021Article
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- Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Genome-Wide Association Study of Male Sexual Orientation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Human homosexuality: a paradigmatic arena for sexually antagonistic selection?Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2015Review
- Do shared etiological factors contribute to the relationship between sexual orientation and depression?Psychological medicine · 2012Article
- Fecundity of paternal and maternal non-parental female relatives of homosexual and heterosexual men.PloS one · 2012Article
- Sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality.PloS one · 2008Article
- Genetic models of homosexuality: generating testable predictions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2006Article
- The geneticization of diagnostics.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2006Article
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Abstract
We present an overview of behavioral genetics research on homosexual and heterosexual orientation. Family, twin, and adoptee studies indicate that homosexuality and thus heterosexuality run in families. Sibling, twin, and adoptee concordance rates are compatible with the hypothesis that genes account for at least half of the variance in sexual orientation. We note observations of homosexual behavior in animal species, but the analogy to human sexual orientation is unclear. We discuss the reproductive disadvantage of a homosexual orientation and present possible mechanisms that could maintain a balanced polymorphism in human populations.
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