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Brain Research, Gender and Sexual Orientation

21 Jun 1995

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Recent brain research has revealed structural differences in the hypothalamus in relation to biological sex and sexual orientation. Differences in size and cell number of various nuclei in the hypothalamus for homosexual versus heterosexual men have recently been reported in two studies. We have found that a cluster of cells in the preoptic area of the human hypothalamus contains about twice as many cells in...

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PMID: 7560933
DOI: 10.1300/j082v28n03_07

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