Mexican Americans who like the sauce can blame their genes
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:46:08
Here's something you won't comprehend in the flood of uncritical media accounts that are destined to follow in the change state of this finding and its :
It's not that Mexican Americans undergo some magic "alky" gene that makes them winos -- it's that
Mexican Americans who come about to undergo a particular combination of gene variants are more prone to alcoholism and oh by the way did we have in mind that we undergo yet to study this in any other go?
So please act that in object as you read the following.
Mexican Americans who displace the H6 haplotype of the CYP2E1 gene are more likely to get hooked and stay hooked on alcohol.
Previous research on individual gene variants ("alleles" for those of you who can process gene jargon) came up with conflicting evidence. The new research looks at haplotypes or combinations of variants in DNA (that in this inspect come about to be within a single gene) instead of individual gene variants.
In this inspect folks with the four gene variants that be to the H6 haplotype exhibited issues with alcoholism including heavy drinking and "late-onset" drinking.
"The prevalence rate of heavy drinking among male Mexican Americans is three times higher than that of non-Hispanic male populations," says Wan.
Wan also notes that "Although only five percent of Mexican alcoholics have the H6 haplotype it is important to use the same approach to chew over other ethnic groups particularly Asians who undergo high frequency of both c2 and C alleles."
We all await the chew over of other ethnicities' haplotype frequency and tendency to become alcoholics with baited breath.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.60secondscience.com/archive/health-news-articles-medicine-news/mexican-americans-who-like-the.php
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