[Viennacon]

After reading it (and I’m no geneticist), it seems as if the conclusion is that homosexuality is not due to a gene, but due to something else carried over from the parent of the same gender with messes up the fetus. Does this mean a future cure would not require advanced gene therapy, and might even be medicinal?

[abigailsmybaby]

That’s a good question. I believe they stated that at some point it could be possible to protect the baby during gestation from androgen signaling misfires. Of course I’m paraphrasing but that’s the way I understood it.

[muawiyah]

The 'cure' wouldn't be genetic ~ although it could very well affect DNA ~ one Freeper who is in the field professionally corrected a sloppy statement I"d made earlier on the matter. The epigenetic 'switches' (a conceptial term) are part of the DNA strands. However, as we know from messing around with plants and mice, it is possible now to go into the genome and snip, add to, or delete strands.

We recently had an article where a mouse gene that controls hair thickness, number of sweat glands, breast size and shape of teeth was replaced with a human gene that does the same thing.

Turns out that mouse gene is virtually identical to the human gene so such things are possible.

Actually, I had no idea we were that advanced already, but there you have it.

Future technology will probably give you something like a glucophage pill that reprograms your DNA everyday ~ so you can metabolize insulin and grow new nerve tissue. Later on they'll get around to a process that makes the fixes more permanent.

The day when gays can blame it on genes is fast coming to an end, yet, if they want to tell us it's all about epigenetics that opens the door to imposing a FIX on them whether they want it or not.

A brighter spot in this means that Cystic Fibrosis and a host of other 'diseases' can be repaired.