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Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition
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Review and theory of handedness, birth order, and homosexuality in men

Pages 51-70 | Received 03 Jul 2007, Published online: 29 Nov 2007

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Lee Ellis, Malvina N. Skorska & Anthony F. Bogaert. (2017) Handedness, sexual orientation, and somatic markers for prenatal androgens: Are southpaws really that gay?. Laterality 22:2, pages 157-180.
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KennethB. Ashley. (2013) The Science on Sexual Orientation: A Review of the Recent Literature. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 17:2, pages 175-182.
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Laura Erickson-Schroth. (2013) Update on the Biology of Transgender Identity. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 17:2, pages 150-174.
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Doug P. VanderLaan, Malvina N. Skorska, Diana E. Peragine & Lindsay A. Coome. (2022) Carving the Biodevelopment of Same-Sex Sexual Orientation at Its Joints. Archives of Sexual Behavior 52:7, pages 2939-2962.
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Margherita Attanasio, Francesco Masedu, Fabrizio Quattrini, Maria Chiara Pino, Roberto Vagnetti, Marco Valenti & Monica Mazza. (2021) Are Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asexuality Connected?. Archives of Sexual Behavior 51:4, pages 2091-2115.
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Doug P. VanderLaan, Malvina N. Skorska, Diana E. Peragine & Lindsay A. Coome. 2022. Gender and Sexuality Development. Gender and Sexuality Development 491 537 .
Adam Safron & Victoria Klimaj. 2022. Gender and Sexuality Development. Gender and Sexuality Development 443 490 .
Scott T. Ronis, E. Sandra Byers, Lori A. Brotto & Shana Nichols. (2021) Beyond the Label: Asexual Identity Among Individuals on the High-Functioning Autism Spectrum. Archives of Sexual Behavior 50:8, pages 3831-3842.
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Ray Blanchard, Klaus M. Beier, Francisco R. Gómez Jiménez, Dorit Grundmann, Jurian Krupp, Scott W. Semenyna & Paul L. Vasey. (2020) Meta-Analyses of Fraternal and Sororal Birth Order Effects in Homosexual Pedophiles, Hebephiles, and Teleiophiles. Archives of Sexual Behavior 50:3, pages 779-796.
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Nelma Lina Almeida Castro, Sandra Martins de Brito Carvalho, Cristina Paula Pereira, Maria Neide De Almeida, Patricia Coelho de Almeida, Leandro Rachel Arguello, Antonio Carlos Dorsa, Giuliano Moreto Onaka, Patricia Kubalaki Onaka, Fernanda Viana de Carvalho Moreto & Luis Henrique Almeida Castro. (2021) What We Know About the Genetic Determinants of Human Homosexuality? A Short Review Communication. International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 9:3, pages 124-128.
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Alejandra Hernández, Sandra Olvera-Hernández & Alonso Fernández-Guasti. (2020) Lack of interaction between prenatal stress and prenatal letrozole to induce same-sex preference in male rats. Physiology & Behavior 224, pages 113042.
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Malvina N. Skorska, Lindsay A. Coome, Pongpun Saokhieo, Oranitcha Kaewthip, Suwat Chariyalertsak & Doug P. VanderLaan. (2020) Handedness and Birth Order Among Heterosexual Men, Gay Men, and Sao Praphet Song in Northern Thailand. Archives of Sexual Behavior 49:7, pages 2431-2448.
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Ashlyn Swift-Gallant, Lindsay A. CoomeMadison Aitken, D. Ashley MonksDoug P. VanderLaan. (2019) Evidence for distinct biodevelopmental influences on male sexual orientation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:26, pages 12787-12792.
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Ashlyn Swift-Gallant. (2019) Individual differences in the biological basis of androphilia in mice and men. Hormones and Behavior 111, pages 23-30.
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Edward Dutton, Guy Madison & Curtis Dunkel. (2017) The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load. Evolutionary Psychological Science 4:3, pages 233-244.
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Lindsay A. Coome, Malvina N. Skorska, Anna I.R. van der Miesen, Diana E. Peragine & Doug P. VanderLaan. (2018) An examination of the biodevelopment of gender expression in children ages 6- to 12-years. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 27:2, pages 133-143.
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Nathan T. Bartlett & Peter L. Hurd. (2017) Fraternal Birth Order Effects on Personality: Will Reasonable Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?. Archives of Sexual Behavior 47:1, pages 21-25.
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Doug P. Vanderlaan, Ray Blanchard, Kenneth J. Zucker, Raffael Massuda, Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, André Oliveira Borba, Angelo Bradelli Costa, Maiko Abel Schneider, Andressa Mueller, Bianca Machado Borba Soll, Karine Schwarz, Dhiordan Cardoso Da Silva & Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato. (2016) BIRTH ORDER AND ANDROPHILIC MALE-TO-FEMALE TRANSSEXUALISM IN BRAZIL. Journal of Biosocial Science 49:4, pages 527-535.
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Lori A. Brotto & Morag Yule. (2016) Asexuality: Sexual Orientation, Paraphilia, Sexual Dysfunction, or None of the Above?. Archives of Sexual Behavior 46:3, pages 619-627.
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Ashlyn Swift-Gallant, Lindsay A. Coome, D. Ashley Monks & Doug P. VanderLaan. (2017) Handedness is a biomarker of variation in anal sex role behavior and Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity among gay men. PLOS ONE 12:2, pages e0170241.
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L.J. Gooren & W. Byne. 2017. Hormones, Brain and Behavior. Hormones, Brain and Behavior 151 168 .
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Malvina N. Skorska, Ray Blanchard, Doug P. VanderLaan, Kenneth J. Zucker & Anthony F. Bogaert. (2016) Gay Male Only-Children: Evidence for Low Birth Weight and High Maternal Miscarriage Rates. Archives of Sexual Behavior 46:1, pages 205-215.
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Clare Porac. 2016. Laterality. Laterality 71 85 .
Ray Blanchard & Doug P. VanderLaan. (2015) Commentary on Kishida and Rahman (2015), Including a Meta-analysis of Relevant Studies on Fraternal Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44:5, pages 1503-1509.
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Mariana Kishida & Qazi Rahman. (2015) Fraternal Birth Order and Extreme Right-Handedness as Predictors of Sexual Orientation and Gender Nonconformity in Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44:5, pages 1493-1501.
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Ali Bozkurt, Ozlem Hekim Bozkurt & Ipek Sonmez. (2014) Birth Order and Sibling Sex Ratio in a Population with High Fertility: Are Turkish Male to Female Transsexuals Different?. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44:5, pages 1331-1337.
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Khytam Dawood. 2015. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 779 784 .
Doug P. VanderLaan, Ray Blanchard, Hayley Wood, Luisa C. Garzon & Kenneth J. Zucker. (2015) Birth weight and two possible types of maternal effects on male sexual orientation: A clinical study of children and adolescents referred to a Gender Identity Service. Developmental Psychobiology 57:1, pages 25-34.
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Ray Blanchard. (2014) Detecting and Correcting for Family Size Differences in the Study of Sexual Orientation and Fraternal Birth Order. Archives of Sexual Behavior 43:5, pages 845-852.
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Doug P. VanderLaan, Ray Blanchard, Hayley Wood & Kenneth J. Zucker. (2014) Birth Order and Sibling Sex Ratio of Children and Adolescents Referred to a Gender Identity Service. PLoS ONE 9:3, pages e90257.
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Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto & Boris B. Gorzalka. (2013) Biological Markers of Asexuality: Handedness, Birth Order, and Finger Length Ratios in Self-identified Asexual Men and Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior 43:2, pages 299-310.
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David Myers. (2014) Most are Straight, Some are Gay, and Why it is that Way: The Science of Sexual Orientation. Modern Believing 55:2, pages 127-139.
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Andrea Camperio Ciani & Elena Pellizzari. (2012) Fecundity of Paternal and Maternal Non-Parental Female Relatives of Homosexual and Heterosexual Men. PLoS ONE 7:12, pages e51088.
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Ray Blanchard. (2012) A Possible Second Type of Maternal–Fetal Immune Interaction Involved in Both Male and Female Homosexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior 41:6, pages 1507-1511.
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Ray Blanchard. (2011) Fertility in the Mothers of Firstborn Homosexual and Heterosexual Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior 41:3, pages 551-556.
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Sebastian E. E. Schagen, Henriette A. Delemarre-van de Waal, Ray Blanchard & Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis. (2011) Sibling Sex Ratio and Birth Order in Early-Onset Gender Dysphoric Adolescents. Archives of Sexual Behavior 41:3, pages 541-549.
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James M. Cantor. (2012) Is Homosexuality a Paraphilia? The Evidence For and Against. Archives of Sexual Behavior 41:1, pages 237-247.
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Esther Gómez-Gil, Isabel Esteva, Rocío Carrasco, M. Cruz Almaraz, Eduardo Pasaro, Manel Salamero & Antonio Guillamon. (2010) Birth Order and Ratio of Brothers to Sisters in Spanish Transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior 40:3, pages 505-510.
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Anthony F. Bogaert & Malvina Skorska. (2011) Sexual orientation, fraternal birth order, and the maternal immune hypothesis: A review. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 32:2, pages 247-254.
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Emmanuele A. Jannini, Ray Blanchard, Andrea Camperio-Ciani & John Bancroft. (2010) Male Homosexuality: Nature or Culture?. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 7:10, pages 3245-3253.
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Gene Schwartz, Rachael M. Kim, Alana B. Kolundzija, Gerulf Rieger & Alan R. Sanders. (2009) Biodemographic and Physical Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Men. Archives of Sexual Behavior 39:1, pages 93-109.
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Ray Blanchard, Amy D. Lykins, Diane Wherrett, Michael E. Kuban, James M. Cantor, Thomas Blak, Robert Dickey & Philip E. Klassen. (2008) Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and the DSM-V. Archives of Sexual Behavior 38:3, pages 335-350.
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Rainer Schnell. (2009) Biologische Variablen in Sozialwissenschaftlichen Surveys. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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