[Rockitz]

This is the Daily Mail so is suspect for sensationalism, but this would certainly be interesting if true.

It will be interesting to see what percentage of those claiming to be gay would test positive in such a DNA test.

[SaveFerris]

Dr Tuck Ngun, UCLA

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

So, they have found the insanity gene?!

[QBFimi]

Spermatozoa in the saliva?

[HiTech RedNeck]

In an environment that is sufficiently temptation laden, it is possible in theory that a genetic test could correlate fairly well with outcome.

But genetic tests can tell you who is susceptible to alcohol abuse too. Doesn’t mean the person is going to turn out to be a souse.

[Lake Living]

What they didn’t tell you is that these are the same scientists that have already proven AGW.

[Darksheare]

Considering there is no “gay gene”, the research and announcement is suspect automatically.

[djpg]

If it can be identified and changed, will there be research on how to cure people of it?

[kearnyirish2]

Queers are terrified of this; they fear they’ll be exterminated in the womb (so the current crop has no young ones to chase around). Remember, we’re supposed to pretend that they contribute something positive to the larger society...

[Caipirabob]

Watch how fast liberal couples will abort gay children. Only the ones already afflicted are interested in raising non-productive offspring.

[rightwingcrazy]

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/03/8-major-studies-of-identital-twins-prove-homosexuality-is-not-genetic/

Scientists claim a lot of things. It takes actual science to sort out which of them provide a more workable picture of the world.

[null and void]

Epigenetics ping...

[Domandred]

The other 30% are people choosing to be “gay” because it’s trendy and PC

[maxwellsmart_agent]

In this case their sampling was 47 sets of twins. In 37 sets on was homosexual. In the other 10 sets, both were gay. This is certainly not a representative sampling of the general public.

This will fall into obscurity in short order. When the try a sampling of the general population, it will not prove their thesis. This is bad science, if it is science at all.

[Zeneta]

http://joecartoon.com/games/play/73/Gerbil_Bar

It’s interactive.

[Regulator]

It has long been believed that sexuality has a biological basis – with certain genes linked to being gay.

Absolute nonsense. NO ONE who is a credible biologist, much less a real geneticist, has "long believed".

It's crackpot idea advanced to legitimize what is obviously a psychological disorder.

ANY organism with a genetic predisposition to not reproduce would be gone in one generation.

[kennedy]

If they come up with a way to test embryos, some people will start aborting their babies because they have the gay gene. It will be fun to watch liberals’ heads explode.

[GilGil]

Total BS. If you can con people into believing there is a gay gene, then the next step is that there is a thief gene, and a murderer gene, a child molester gene and basically there is a gene for everything so that you are not responsible for anything.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Researchers found distinct patterns of molecules which attach to DNA to switch genes on and off were associated with homosexuality. They claim to be able to predict whether someone is gay (illustrated) or straight with 70 per cent accuracy

The findings do not show whether a test would show whether a child would grow up to be gay or not – as the research was carried out on adults.

While our genes are determined at birth – tags on the genes which affect how they work can change over time because of factors in the environment, or in the womb.

They discovered nothing.

[rey]

Regardless, this is not license to act instinctually as though we were animals incapable of controlling ourselves. The I’m born that way or I can’t help it mentality is destructive.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

If the cause is “tags that attach to the DNA”, then it sounds like we can cure gayness with chemistry!