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You can't really trust these press releases in general. A quick search turns up this: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm http://pubs.niaaa.n
by cpncrunch 11y ago
You can't really trust these press releases in general. A quick search turns up this:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm
The gist seems to be that although some groups do have different alcohol metabolizing genes, Native Americans don't differ from the general population, so their alcohol problems can't be explained by genetics.
If you really want to get to the bottom of it, you'd need to spend an hour or two on google scholar.
- tsotha 11y agoI don't find the genetic argument convincing. There are genes we know of that seem to be related to alcoholism and/or addiction, and native Americans don't seem to have them any more than anyone else. But that doesn't mean there aren't genes related to alcoholism we don't know about.
- cpncrunch 11y agoI think they're just debunking the notion that we have already found the "alcoholism gene" in Native Americans.