Paper Title

Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior”: Comment

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Stephanie A. Sanders
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Dean Hamer
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Brian Mustanski
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Justin R. Garcia

Keywords

  • GWAS
  • Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
  • Genetic Architecture
  • Human Sexuality
  • Phenotypic Measures
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Bisexuality
  • Homosexuality
  • Heterosexuality
  • Sexual Behavior Spectrum
  • Validated Measures
  • Sexual Identity
  • Sexual Attraction
  • Personality Traits
  • Sexual Behavior Complexity

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Publication Info

Volume: 372 | Issue: 6536 | Pages: 1–4

Published On

March, 2021

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Abstract

Comments on an article by A. Ganna et al. (see record 2020-15906-001). The phenotypic measures used by Ganna et al. lump together predominantly heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual individuals, including those who have experimented with a same-sex partner only once. This may have resulted in misleading associations to personality traits unrelated to understood categories of human sexuality. Scientific studies of human sexuality should use validated and reliable measures of sexual behaviors, attractions, and identities that capture the full spectrum of complexity.

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