Now the largest independent
replication effort so far, looking at 409 pairs of gay brothers, fingers the same region on the X. «When you first find something out of the entire genome, you're always wondering if it was just by chance,» says Hamer, who asserts that new research «clarifies the matter absolutely.»
In the biggest
replication effort so far, «[i] n a report published in Science in August, 270 psychologists orchestrated a repeat of 100 studies published in three top journals.»
Not exact matches
Of the five studies the project has tackled
so far, some involving experimental treatments already in clinical trials, only two could be repeated; one could not, and technical problems stymied the remaining two
replication efforts.
So far, however, Hyde's
efforts at self -
replication, which Gauld has headed, have been rocky.