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What We Know About the Genetic Determinants of Human Homosexuality? A Short Review Communication

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  • Nelma Lina Almeida Castro

    Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul

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  • Sandra Martins de Brito Carvalho

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  • Cristina Paula Pereira

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  • Maria Neide de Almeida

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  • Patricia Coelho de Almeida

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  • Leandro Rachel Arguello

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  • Antonio Carlos Dorsa

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  • Giuliano Moreto Onaka

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  • Patricia Kubalaki Onaka

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  • Fernanda Viana de Carvalho Moreto

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  • Luis Henrique Almeida Castro

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https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss3.2978
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Abstract

“Homosexualism”, “sexual orientation disorder”, “egodistonic homosexuality”, “unspecified sexual disorder”, “sexual maturity disorder” and “sexual relationship disorder”. Since 1948, these have been, throughout the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DCM) and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), the terms used by the scientific community to categorize the homoaffective spectrum until in 2017, in the face of strong social and academic demand, their complete disengagement from any terminology that categorizes them as physical and/or mental illness. On the other hand, some areas of science have contributed substantially to a better understanding of this subject, such as genetics and epigenetics. Today, although the scientific community still offers some points of resistance, especially in more conservative countries, it is a consensus that since the implementation of the genome project there has been a considerable methodological expansion that has opened new possibilities of studies that have allowed this advance.

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2021-03-01
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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2021): International Journal for Innovation Education and Research
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Almeida Castro, N. L., Martins de Brito Carvalho, S., Paula Pereira, C., de Almeida, M. N., Coelho de Almeida, P., Rachel Arguello, L., Dorsa, A. C., Moreto Onaka, G., Kubalaki Onaka, P., Viana de Carvalho Moreto, F., & Almeida Castro, L. H. (2021). What We Know About the Genetic Determinants of Human Homosexuality? A Short Review Communication. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 9(3), 124-128. https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol9.iss3.2978