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<p>From the <a href="https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/paternal-age-and-homosexuality/" target="_blank">original article</a> on January 6, 2013. Author: <a href="https://westhunt.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">West Hunter</a>.</p>
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<p>There’s something interesting about the paternal age effect in homosexuality – apparently there isn’t one. It certainly exists for autism, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and mental retardation, which suggests that de novo mutations play an important role in all of them. But homosexuality, although it is obviously a Darwinian mental illness – despite the opinions of the loons who wrote the DSM – does not seem to be mutation-driven. At least not much. It’s a different kind of crazy. </p>
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<p>There were already reasons to think this. First, homosexuality is A. common and B. involves disruption of a relatively simple adaptation, one that ought to present a smallish mutational target. It would not be easy for something driven by mutation to become that common (> 1%), when the number of key genes involved in sexual targeting probably is not especially large. Certainly not large compared to the number that influence general intelligence. </p>
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<p>Besides that, we (I have a tapeworm) don’t see syndromic forms of homosexuality, ones in which particular mutations cause the phenotype of interest (deafness, for example) but also cause other characteristic changes, such as wide-set eyes and a white streak of hair (Waardenburg syndrome). About 15% of the mutations causing deafness are syndromic. I don’t know the fraction of mutations causing mental retardation that are syndromic, but it must be substantial: that’s why people working with mentally retarded youth talk about FLKs – funny-looking kids. There might be genetic/syndromic kinds of homosexuality, but they must be rare. They might be very informative, however. </p>
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<p>By the way, I’m supposed to say ‘intellectual disability”, instead of retardation, according to various morons. </p>
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