Company claims it can analyze a person’s DNA for traces of homosexuality

A tech startup called Insolent.AI wants people to pay $5.50 for the privilege of handing over their DNA to be analyzed for gayness. Seriously.

122 Shades of Gray is a new app that claims it can predict a person’s sexual orientation by analyzing data from a commercial DNA test, like those offered by 23andMe or MyHeritage.

“My thoughts on this app is that it is garbage,” Deanna Church, genetics expert and Senior Director of Applications, Mammalian at the biotech company Inscripta, tells Futurism.

“You cannot tell ‘how gay’ someone is from looking at their DNA and I don’t think you will ever be able to do this.”

The app requires users to pay $5.50 to voluntarily provide their genetic information. In exchange, they receive a graph that claims to quantify their sexual orientation. Or something.

“Sounds terrible,” geneticist and cell biologist Katayoun Chamany tells Futurism.

We would have to concur. Especially after a wide-ranging study was just published earlier this year that totally debunked the whole “gay gene” myth…

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