Adaptive Genetic Variation and Population Differences Author links open overlay panelChao-QiangLai https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-398397-8.00018-6 “It is unlikely that the high frequency of these risk alleles was under recent selection by alcoholism. “Goldman and Enoch93 proposed two possible types of selection. First, mycotoxins (aflatoxins, in particular), which can cause hepatic disease and cancer, are commonly present in moldy […]
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Paleogenetics looks at the origins of the ability to metabolize alcohol
Humans have been consuming ethyl alcohol — ethanol — for millions of years. Indeed, the ability to consume alcohol may have shaped primate evolution. Humans have this ability because, in addition to obvious beverage sources, alcohol is present in many common foods such as bread and other bakery products, fruit and fruit juices (Gorgus, et, […]
Sources for Under-Reporting of Alcohol Consumption
Sources, Under-Reporting Underreporting in alcohol surveys: whose drinking is underestimated? Drinking pattern is more strongly associated with under-reporting of alcohol consumption than socio-demographic factors: evidence from a mixed-methods study Estimating under- and over-reporting of drinking in national surveys of alcohol consumption: Identification of consistent biases across four English-speaking countries How is alcohol consumption affected if […]
All moderate alcohol consumption studies are “all over the charts”
All moderate alcohol consumption studies are “all over the charts” because they are epidemiological and plagued by confounding factors no matter how hard investigators work to control for those. Epidemiology is a correlative method that cannot conclude causation. This is true even with newer statistical techniques such as Mendelian Randomization.For an extended examination of the […]
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Random humans: Thank a Moravian pea farmer.
Each human is randomly unique because: Genes reside on chromosomes. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Each member of a pair of chromosomes are not identical. Egg and sperm cells under go a division (meiosis) that leaves each of them only one half of the chromosomes. The fertilization process is a random scramble with no […]
Sources, Under-Reporting of Alcohol Consumption
Sources, Under-Reporting Underreporting in alcohol surveys: whose drinking is underestimated? Drinking pattern is more strongly associated with under-reporting of alcohol consumption than socio-demographic factors: evidence from a mixed-methods study Estimating under- and over-reporting of drinking in national surveys of alcohol consumption: Identification of consistent biases across four English-speaking countries How is alcohol consumption affected if […]