Posted on 07/02/2015 5:51:21 AM PDT by Oratam
Geneticists at the University of Vermont have revealed links between eye color and alcohol dependency, suggesting it occurs more frequently among people with blue eyes and less frequently among those with dark brown eyes.
The study, which offers another piece of evidence that alcohol dependency has a genetic component, involved a sample of 1,263 individual genetic profiles. They were pulled from a database that only contains genetic profiles of people diagnosed with at least one psychiatric illness, which includes an addiction to, or dependence on, drugs or alcohol. For this study, the geneticists filtered the database for patients with alcohol addiction or dependence and European ancestry.
Repeated analyses of the sample led to the conclusion that European Americans with light eye colors, including blue and green and gray, had higher incidences of alcohol dependency than those with dark brown eyes, and that blue eyes were most strongly associated with the condition. The data showed that people with blue eyes were also more likely to have genes associated with alcohol dependence.
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Brown is the new blue.
No thanks I’d sooner drink Drano
What this most likely means is that genes involved in alcohol/substance dependency are located on the same chromosome as genes that control eye color. When genes for different traits are located on the same chromosome, they are called “linked genes.” Other than the physical proximity, the genes have nothing to do with each other. Having green eyes does not cause alcoholism/substance abuse.
My blue eyed nephew had to appear before a judge, who then said to him:”If you Lithuanians would just stick to basketball, instead of drinking,you’d be a lot better off”.
I have green eyes and some other vision weirdness that has confounded several specialits and I can’t stand alcohol, it burns and has no flavor. Coffee is just overwhelmingly bitter despite adding lots of sugar.
Considering the portion of the population that skin color represents half of it has been convicted of 1 or more crimes. Some as high as 40-60 of the lower end felonies. They serve less time to boot than their white counter parts.
You learn a lot when your nightly news comes out of Memphis. The first 10 mins or more is nothing but crime. Most of it black on black, then hispanic. They did catch the black killer of a Service Man yesterday. He'll be back out on Bond, and you can bet he has a long record starting as a Juvy which they sealed.
Next time my sink needs unclogged I’ll consider that
While there have often been claims of genetic predilections to alcohol/drug dependence there is no actual proof that such a gene exists.
They need to reassess the study, my 57 yr old brother is a severe alcoholic, always drunk and drinking Ever Clear, and is brown eyed and fair skinned.
I on the other hand am blue eyed, fair skinned and would get drunk on 2 shots of Scotch. Knowing my inability to ‘hold’ my liquor I stop at 1. My mama only raised 1 weak fool and I’m not it.
There was NO drinking in our house as we were growing up.
Correlation is not causation. Some genes serve several purposes. Some genes, acting in concert with other genes produce more than one effect.
Another “study” that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Yeah, I noticed this trend here in Arizona among the local indigenous...
A lot of Asians are allergic to alcohol, not severely, but they can’t drink too much or they have a bad reaction.
Brown Eyes?? Get it?? Maybe that is the reason.
< Brogue>Curse o’ the Irish. That’s why there’ll never be an Irish pope, or so they say. < /Brogue>
That makes step 1: Get Candice Drunk, a gimme.
Don’t it make my brown eyes blue?
Blue eyed devils!
— Elijah Muhammad
Three are far fewer people who are alcohol dependant than not, the are far fewer people with blue eyes than brown.
American Indians would disagree.
Maybe the Irish makes up for them?
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