Comments on: Study: Gene May Make You Drunk Faster, But Could Stave Off Alcoholism, Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/20/study-gene-may-make-you-drunk-faster-but-stave-off-alcoholism-too/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/20/study-gene-may-make-you-drunk-faster-but-stave-off-alcoholism-too/comment-page-1/#comment-367019 Eliza Strickland Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:51:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21605#comment-367019 YouRang: thanks for the catch, and good point. It's people who have a particular version of the CYP2E1 gene who are easily intoxicated. I fixed the post. -- Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor YouRang: thanks for the catch, and good point. It’s people who have a particular version of the CYP2E1 gene who are easily intoxicated. I fixed the post.

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

]]> By: YouRang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/20/study-gene-may-make-you-drunk-faster-but-stave-off-alcoholism-too/comment-page-1/#comment-364651 YouRang Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:38:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21605#comment-364651 Surely this article is wrong in 1 particular--surely CYP2E1 is present in all brains. Surely what he should have said is: 1 particular SNP is present in the brains of the easily intoxicated. And the study (as reported here anyway) didn't have any way of knowing whether the easily intoxicated run a higher or lower risk of alcoholism (i.e. they should have studied the alcoholic parent.) Surely this article is wrong in 1 particular–surely CYP2E1 is present in all brains. Surely what he should have said is: 1 particular SNP is present in the brains of the easily intoxicated. And the study (as reported here anyway) didn’t have any way of knowing whether the easily intoxicated run a higher or lower risk of alcoholism (i.e. they should have studied the alcoholic parent.)

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