Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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921617 | Biological Psychology | 2008 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We investigated the potential to engage in homosexual behavior in 6001 female and 3152 male twins and their siblings finding that 32.8% of the men and 65.4% of the women reported such potential (p < 0.001). 91.5% of these men and 98.3% of these women reported no overt homosexual behavior during the preceding 12 months. The potential to engage in homosexual behavior was influenced by genetic effects for both men (37.4%) and women (46.4%) and these overlapped only partly with those for overt homosexual behavior.
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Authors
Pekka Santtila, N. Kenneth Sandnabba, Nicole Harlaar, Markus Varjonen, Katarina Alanko, Bettina von der Pahlen,