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I removed the bolded statements "sexual orientation" and "biology." The emphasis does not appear in the original, and the quote's relevance to these topics is obvious from it's inclusion in the article "Biology and sexual orientation." I consider this a minor edit, but the emphasis could return, with a notation "emphasis added." Any thoughts or preferances? Biccat (talk) 19:02, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heretability Table

Estimates of heritability of homosexuality
Study	Male	Female
Hershberger, 1997	0%	48%
Bailey et al., 2000	30%
Kendler et al., 2000	28–65%
Kirk et al., 2000	30%	50–60%
Bearman et al., 2002	7.7%	5.3%

I have removed the heretability table until it can be corrected. Bearman et al did not estimate the heretabilities of same sex attraction to be 7.7% and 5.5% in males and females respectively. Those numbers refer to the concordance of homosexual attraction in MZ twins when at least one feels same sex attraction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Domminico (talk • contribs) 23:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, well, isn't that what each of the other studies in the table also are based on: the concordance of homosexual attraction in MZ twins when at least one feels same sex attraction. The incidence of concordance is then taken as the measure of heretability. GiveItSomeThought (talk) 03:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scans see 'gay brain differences'

Scans see 'gay brain differences' 01:00, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

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 I have removed the heretability table until it can be corrected. Bearman et al did not estimate the heretabilities of same sex attraction to be 7.7% and 5.5% in males and females respectively. Those numbers refer to the concordance of homosexual attraction in MZ twins when at least one feels same sex attraction.  <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Domminico|Domminico]] ([[User talk:Domminico|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Domminico|contribs]]) 23:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+: Hmmm, well, isn't that what each of the other studies in the table also are based on: the concordance of homosexual attraction in MZ twins when at least one feels same sex attraction.  The incidence of concordance is then taken as the measure of heretability. [[User:GiveItSomeThought|GiveItSomeThought]] ([[User talk:GiveItSomeThought|talk]]) 03:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 ==Scans see 'gay brain differences'==