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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Interesting ... I have brown eyes, and an enormous tolerance for booze. However, the only actual alcoholic that I'm aware of (he's dry, fortunately) among my friends and acquaintances also has brown eyes, and is of fairly similar ethnic ancestry.
Could they be “using” this “study” information for increases in sentencing for blue-eyed offenders? Roadblocks for DUI testing on “blue eyed” people? Nothing surprises me with what “academia” will come up with. Sounds stupid, but many things I have never thought that I’d see have come to pass.
I have blue eyes and I hate alcohol and don’t drink it.
The American Indian would disagree.
I was a drinker for 25 years, with the last 5 mainly being the hard stuff. A functional alcoholic. Most are. Eventually your body, and in my case my Pancreas, says no more and you have to choose between eating and drinking. I would love to say I went through some kind of moment of clarity or emotional awakening. None of that happened.
My body just said NO more. It’s like the old story of the grandpa sticking the boy in the closet with a pack of cigars and the boy can’t come out until all the cigars are smoked. The boy never smoked again after that. I just see it as it took me 25 years to come out of that alcohol filled closet.
I don’t believe in the Dogma of AA. People can make it without it.
I have blue eyes and exactly the same reactions to both alcohol and coffee, hmmm.
+1
Bada bing
I’m green eyed and don’t for the effect of alcohol
My wife has wet light brown eyes and loves her Heiny and Pinot and toddys from Martini to Magarita to Pimms Cup
My best male friend in my life had very blue eyes...girls swooned and dropped like fainting goats at his feet
Alcohol ruined his life
When his pancreas gave out he went to OxyContin
Indians have brown eyes and off the charts alcoholism
So there you are
Exactly the punchline I was going to use. Glad I read the thread first so I didn't look silly chiming in late.
It is those blue eyed Swedish chicks drinking too much I will be on the lookout for....................
The actual genes do not have to be identified to determine that there is a strong genetic component to addiction, but there is enough evidence to suggest that several genes are involved. Like most genetic traits, however, environment also has a strong influence.
In the case of alcoholism, different forms of genes responsible for alcohol metabolism are associated with different risks of development of alcoholism.
You do not need to identify the genes associated with a specific trait to determine that a trait has a strong genetic component. That determination is made by studies of the incidence of the trait. There are still many genetic diseases where specific genes involved have not been identified.
The first geneticist, Gregor Mendel, did a vast body of genetics research without ever knowing what a gene or DNA was.
Can’t pertain to me. Every morning I have blood red eyes.
True. And American Indian’s are all dark eyed, except the mixed races.
My brother is a immature 57 yr old, can’t hold a job because of the booze, he has drank himself to the point he spent 17 days in the hospital with Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome. He’s on a walker now, and will not be able to walk on his own ever again. He sends a cab for his booze when he can find money which my sis thinks he steals out of their wallets, she just can’t prove it.
When the hospital dumped him on my middle sister’s love seat with just the walker it took 4 large men to haul his 200lb up her second story steep stairs. He spent a couple of months sleeping on the floor there, until the smell from no hygiene drove her to move him back to his RV in her back yard. She put his porta potty out there with him. He scares the H out of her grand kids. He refuses to take the meds he was prescribed for the Wernicke Korsakoff, plus I don’t know what else.
She has sclerosis, her husband has MD he barely gets up the basement steps that are narrow. His only hope is a care facility where he is made to follow the rules.
None of us are really capable of taking him on due to health issues.
You have to want to help yourself. Same goes for over eating.
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