Information AboutDean Hamer |
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| 1951 births | |
| hamer, dean | |
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| harvard medical school alumni | |
| american geneticists | |
| sexual orientation and medicine | |
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Dr Dean Hamer is a Geneticist , who, As Of 2005 is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes Of Health ). Born in 1951 , he obtained his BA at Trinity College , CT , USA and his Ph.D from Harvard Medical School . He has been involved in two major scientific controversies. Together with Simon LeVay he has postulated the existence of a Gay Gene that predisposes men towards Homosexuality . More recently, he has postulated the existence of a God Gene for Religious Experience . In addition to his scientific work, he has published a number of popular science books aimed at a general readership and is also the holder of a number of Patent s. PUBLICATIONS
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