What has DNA got to do with your first action between the sheetsIJ A lot, say researchers, adding that there are 38 specific places in the human genome that may be linked with the age at which people first have sex.
Interestingly, the researchers found that people with these variants were also 26 percent less likely to qualify for college admission and 33 per cent more likely to start smoking.
“While social and cultural factors are clearly relevant, we show that age at first sexual intercourse is also influenced by genes,” said John Perry, researcher at the University of Cambridge in Britain, in a paper that appeared in the journal Nature Genetics.
According to a los Angeles Times report, these 38 spots affect a range of genes, including some that seem to affect the timing of puberty and others that have been linked with risk-taking behaviour.