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...There are many reproductive possibilities that could be raised by genetic research," said Boston University psychiatrist Richard Pillard. "Homosexuality is just one of them...
...Pillard emphasized that the objective of research on sexual orientation is not to "cure" homosexuality...
...genetic rather than the result of disease or some aspect of gay life. Says LeVay: "This new work and the studies of twins are two lines of evidence pointing in the same direction. But the DNA evidence is much stronger than the twin studies." Dr. Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and co-author of some twin studies -- showing that identical twins of gay men have a 50% chance of being gay -- is almost as laudatory. Says he: "If the new study holds up, it would be the first example of a higher-order behavior...
According to data presented by Dr. Richard C. Pillard, a Boston University professor of psychiatry, 4 percent of the brothers of heterosexual men are gay, while 22 percent of the brothers of homosexual men are gay. This data supports the hypothesis that homosexuality is at least in part genetic, Pillard said...
Among the speakers are Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School; Simon Levay, from the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Studies in California; and Evan S. Balaban, assistant professor of biology at Harvard...