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	The Brain Chemistry of the Buddha: Dean Hamer on the God Gene -- Beliefnet.com
		In 'The God Gene,' geneticist Dean Hamer says human spirituality may have an innate genetic component to it.
		Dean Hamer is a molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health, where he heads the Gene Structure and Regulation section at the National Cancer Institute.
		In his latest book, Hamer says certain brain chemicals affect higher consciousness and spirituality, and that the actions of these chemicals are linked to a gene his team has researched.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/154/story_15451_1.html (542 words)

	AAAS - AAAS News Release
		Dean Hamer, a molecular biologist who has made the provocative proposal that spirituality may be a product of our genes, discussed his work in a 26 May lecture at AAAS and cautioned that his research says nothing about whether God exists or not.
		Hamer, chief of the gene structure and regulation unit at the National Cancer Institute, is author of a popular book, "The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes." The book received extensive media attention when it was published last year, including a cover story in Time magazine.
		Hamer undertook his research on spirituality as a sidelight to a study he was doing on smoking and addiction.
	www.aaas.org /news/releases/2005/0607godgene.shtml (823 words)

	Dean Hamer, Bill Broadway, Washington Post
		Hamer said his previous research, most notably his work on anxiety, encouraged him to look into the genetic propensity for religious belief.
		Critics in the scientific community argue that Hamer's conclusions are simplistic and speculative, relying too much on anecdotal evidence and too little on testing of the VMAT2 gene to determine other possible connections to behavior.
		Hamer said more research has to be done to determine whether there is a genetic basis for other religion-related phenomena, including the existence of archetypes, the similarity of creation stories in various religions and the common characteristics of fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
	www.selfknowledge.org /resources/press/washpost_broadway.htm (1153 words)

	beliefnet: The God Gene--Bad Science Meets Bad Theology by Albert Mohler on Dean Hamer VMAT-2 spirituality
		Once Hamer makes this argument, he surrenders any sense of integrity in talking about a "God gene." Having redefined his terms, limiting the specific scope of his explanatory thesis to concern for self-transcendence that can be understood in purely secular terms, Hamer undermines his own argument and marketing strategy.
		Hamer uses the term to mean "spiritual feelings that are independent of traditional religiousness." These feelings are not tied to belief in any specific God, nor are they tied to traditional practices of devotion or to any doctrinal structure.
		Dean Hamer is most famously [or infamously] known for his claim to have found a genetic explanation for male homosexuality.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/154/story_15458.html (1463 words)

	Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dean Hamer's team reported that they had found evidence for a maternal influence in the determination of male homosexuality.
		Hamer's subsequent publication and the fame that came with it were dampened by the work of George Ebers in February 1995.
		In response, Dean Hamer repeated his study and confirmed the predisposition to homosexuality based on Xq28, saying that "most of the heterosexual brothers had different Xq28 markers from their homosexual siblings." His study revealed a 67% concordance between gay brothers and only 22% between the heterosexual and homosexual brothers.
	kmayeda.bol.ucla.edu /HC92/studies.html (1305 words)

	Knitting Circle Dean Hamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dean H. Hamer, Stella Hu, Victoria L. Magnuson, Nan Hu, and Angela M. Pattatucci, (1993), "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation", Science, vol.
		Hamer, the senior author both of that paper and Living with Our Genes (Peter Copeland seems to be a sort of superior ghost), works at the US government's National Cancer Institute, but the relevance of his genetic study of 40 pairs of gay brothers to cancer research is obscure.
		Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland in Living with Our Genes state it clearly: genes build brains, brains through their balance of neural transmitters make temperament, and a person's temperament - through interaction with and modification by the environment - generates his or her character and behaviour.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/deanhamer.html (1523 words)

	Drury University: Dean Hamer
		Hamer and his work were instantly celebrated by some and subjected to the harshest criticism by others.
		In his lab at the National Cancer Institute, Hamer’s response has been the search for genes linked to other behaviors; he wonders if cigarette smoking, addiction, taking risks or even happiness may be at least partly determined by our genes.
		Hamer's research has led to contributions in a variety of areas including recombinant DNA, drug and vaccine production, and gene regulation.
	www.drury.edu /multinl/story.cfm?ID=5398&NLID=224 (339 words)

	Dr. Dean Hamer's Home Page
		Dean Hamer was born in Montclair, N.J. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Connecticut and his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School.
		Hamer's research has been described in Discover magazine and other national publications.
		Hamer DH and Copeland P. The Science of Desire (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1994).
	rex.nci.nih.gov /RESEARCH/basic/biochem/hamer.htm (798 words)

	Amazon.ca: Living With Our Genes: Books: Dean H. Hamer,Peter Copeland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Human geneticist Dean Hamer, whose research team found the popularly termed "gay gene," surveys what is currently known about the inheritance of human behavior and personality.
		Dean Hamer, while working in his laboratory at the National Institute of Health, made headlines around the world when he discovered a genetic link to male homosexuality.
		Hamer goes through the effects of your genetics as it relates to your personality; your propensity to seek thrills; your tendencies toward aggression, anger and violence; your capacity for addiction; your needs in regard to sex and love; your body weight and eating habits; your rate of aging; and your emotional temperament.
	www.amazon.ca /Living-Our-Genes-Dean-Hamer/dp/0385485832 (1851 words)

	Portrait of a gene guy - genetic researcher Dean Hamer Discover - Find Articles
		Dean Hamer is a happt man. Yu can see it in the grin that spreads across his face at the slightest provocation.
		Psychologists have found that each person gravitates toward a particular degree of happiness, Hamer explains, and "this level of cheerfulness and contentment is mostly a matter of heredity." So far, nobody knows which of the 100,000 genes scattered along the human genome Hamer can thank.
		Shortly before that, Hamer showed that a person's extroversion and taste for new experiences are tied to a gene that shapes the brain's response to dopamine, a brain chemical whose effects are mimicked by such drugs as cocaine.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n10_v18/ai_19758744?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (890 words)

	Dean Hamer on transsexualism
		Dean Hamer reported findings of a "gay gene" in the early 1990s, which Northwestern University psychologist J Michael Bailey and friends are trying to replicate, notably Khytam Dawood.
		Having recently read a completely uncritical profile [2] of Dean Hamer and his new book on the alleged “God gene,” [3] I have been thinking a lot about how fringe scientists are able to manipulate the media and get publicity by making especially dramatic claims.
		In fact, Hamer continues to profit from his adventures in pseudoscience, both as a priest selling his belief system (and poorly researched books) and as a well-paid bureaucrat with the US government.
	www.tsroadmap.com /info/dean-hamer.html (1052 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Albert Mohler's Weblog
		Hamer begins his book with an illustration drawn from Buddhist spirituality, and within the first ten pages he redefines faith as "self-transcendence." As he explains, "Self-transcendence provides a numerical measure of people's capacity to reach out beyond themselves--to see everything in the world as part of one great totality.
		Once Hamer makes this argument, he surrenders any sense of integrity in talking about a "God gene." Having redefined his terms, limiting the specific scope of his explanatory thesis to concern for self-transcendence that can be understood in purely secular terms, Hamer undermines his own argument and marketing strategy.
		Hamer uses the term to mean "spiritual feelings that are independent of traditional religiousness." These feelings are not tied to belief in any specific God, nor are they tied to traditional practices of devotion or to any doctrinal structure.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=10/1/2004 (1550 words)

	Ex-Gay Watch: Nature AND Nurture, 'Gay Gene' Geneticist Dean Hamer Says
		Dean Hamer is the geneticist whose groundbreaking 1992 research is periodically misused by exgay activists to conjure up an imaginary belief (among unnamed and impossible-to-find gay people) in a solitary "gay gene." Hamer was profiled Oct. 3 in The Philadelphia...
		Dean Hamer is the geneticist whose groundbreaking 1992 research is periodically misused by exgay activists to conjure up an imaginary belief (among unnamed and impossible-to-find gay people) in a solitary "gay gene."
		Hamer was profiled Oct. 3 in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
	www.exgaywatch.com /blog/archives/2005/10/nature_and_nurt.html (2357 words)

	The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into our Genes -- book review
		Dean Hamer is a geneticist and author of many books considered “popular” if you inhabit academia, but rather too wordy for the racks at the supermarket.
		Hamer runs through the usual “identical twins” phenomenon on his path to enlightening us about the “god gene.” Too many twins raised separately have too many characteristics in common to let us ignore the power of their genetic make-up in fashioning their often parallel lives.
		The scientist Hamer can make much matter of the physiological component of this well-meaning happening known as the “Good Friday experiment.” The chemical action in psilocybin “is a mimic of the monoamine serotonin,” and these day we all know what that means.
	www.curledup.com /godgene.htm (715 words)

	Amazon.fr : The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genes : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hamer, a geneticist at the National Cancer Institute, wound up on his quest for the God gene by a roundabout route.
		Hamer proposes that the God gene changes the level of these neurotransmitters so as to alter a person's mood, consciousness and, ultimately, self-transcendence.
		Still, Hamer has done sufficient research to argue that a single gene is implicated in spirituality, and his highly accessible exposition of how he arrived at that point is pretty impressive, if occasionally a bit Mr.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385720319 (1495 words)

	THE FAMILY FOUNDATION
		Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute suggested a link between genes and homosexuality.
		Then National Cancer Institute geneticist Dean Hamer made headlines in 1993 by suggesting that one such gene resides in a region of the X chromosome, one of the microscopic structures that carry genes.
		Although Hamer never identified the gene itself, his research suggested its location by finding that 33 pairs of gay brothers shared certain genetic “markers” that heterosexual brothers didn’t.
	www.tffky.org /articles/1999/199907dc.htm (490 words)

	Knitting Circle Dean Hamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dean H. Hamer, Stella Hu, Victoria L. Magnuson, Nan Hu, and Angela M. Pattatucci, (1993), "A Linkage Between DNA Markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation", Science, vol.
		Hamer, the senior author both of that paper and Living with Our Genes (Peter Copeland seems to be a sort of superior ghost), works at the US government's National Cancer Institute, but the relevance of his genetic study of 40 pairs of gay brothers to cancer research is obscure.
		Dean Hamer and Peter Copeland in Living with Our Genes state it clearly: genes build brains, brains through their balance of neural transmitters make temperament, and a person's temperament - through interaction with and modification by the environment - generates his or her character and behaviour.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /deanhamer.html (1501 words)

	The God Gene (New book by Dr. Dean Hamer)(He failed to find the "Gay Gene") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination toward religious faith is no accident; it is in good measure due to our genes.
		Hamer shows that new discoveries in behavioral genetics and neurobiology indicate that humans inherit a set of predispositions that make their brains ready and eager to embrace a higher power.
		Researcher Dean Hamer, for example, attempted to link male homosexuality to a stretch of DNA located at the tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome that some men inherit from their mothers.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1223607/posts (1305 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| The God Gene by Dean Hamer
		In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination towards religious faith is in good measure due to our genes and may even offer an evolutionary advantage by helping us get through difficulties, reducing stress, preventing disease, and extending life.
		DEAN HAMER is a preeminent geneticist and author of The Science of Desire, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Living with Our Genes.
		Hamer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ariens Kappers Award for Neurobiology.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385720311 (302 words)

	Bookslut \| Spirituality Explained? Reflections on Dean Hamer’s The God Gene
		Hamer concedes that this is no proof of a genetic basis for spirituality “since a positive correlation could, in principle, be due to genes, shared environments, or a combination of both.”
		Hamer admits this is a weak trend at best, but asserts anyway that the spiritual allele may alter how its owner’s brain processes aspects of experience related to spirituality, and how those experiences actually feel.
		Hamer’s 11th-hour admission that “just because spirituality is partly genetic doesn’t mean it is hardwired” is too little, too late.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2005_06_005638.php (1003 words)

	The Future of Life: Dean H. Hamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For 24 years Dean Hamer has worked at the National Institutes of Health, where he is currently the Chief of the Section on Gene Structure and Regulation in the Laboratory of Biochemistry.
		Hamer's research has led to major contributions in a variety of areas including recombinant DNA, drug and vaccine production, and HIV/AIDS.
		Hamer received his B.A. from Trinity College, Connecticut, and his Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School.
	www.thefutureoflife.com /speakers/hamer.htm (193 words)

	Faith in God is down to your genes, says Researcher
		Hamer claims there is a version of the VMAT2 gene that is a ‘God Gene'.
		Hamer believes Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus probably had the version of the VMAT2 Gene.
		Hamer said "This means that the tendency to be spiritual is part of genetic make-up.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=16378 (452 words)

	Center for Cancer Research - Staff Pages
		Dean Hamer received his B.A. from Trinity College in Connecticut in 1972 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977.
		He has been with the Laboratory of Biochemistry since 1981, and is currently the chief of the Gene Structure and Regulation Section.
		We have demonstrated the feasibility of this live microbicide approach by genetically engineering a commensal strain of bacteria to secrete high levels of an HIV fusion inhibitor both in vitro and in vivo.
	ccr.cancer.gov /staff/staff.asp?profileid=5610 (240 words)

	The Power of our Genes: An interview with Dean Hamer
		DECEMBER 1998-Dean Hamer, chief of gene structure and regulation at the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Biochemistry, is one of a small group of researchers mapping the human personality.
		Researchers compare personality traits across the twins by asking leading questions like "When in a crowded room, do you speak to others, or keep to yourself?" and "How many friends do you have?" The higher the correlation across identical twins for any one trait, the greater the genetic component of that trait.
		Hamer is quick to point out that, despite the success of behavioral genetics, a great deal of room still remains for the "big questions" like why we are here and what makes an action moral or immoral.
	www.science-spirit.org /article_detail.php?article_id=21 (693 words)

	frontline: assault on gay america: the 'gay gene' debate
		The search for the possible genetic basis of homosexuality was not new in 1993--other researchers had isolated the gene in fruit flies.
		And Dean Hamer, along with a brain researcher named Simon LeVay and a handful of other scientists focusing on biological and genetic causes of homosexuality, were making the leap from laboratory animals to people.
		Dean Hamer, Simon LeVay and others began to lay out their answer in scientific papers and several popular books in the early 1990s.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/genetics (664 words)

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