Yale Study Suggests Evolutionary Source Of Alcoholism’s Accidental Enemy

Some change in the environment in many East Asian communities during the past few thousand years may have protected residents from becoming alcoholics, a new genetic analysis conducted by Yale School of Medicine researchers suggests. The study by Hui Li and others in the laboratory of Kenneth Kidd, professor of genetics, psychiatry and ecology & evolutionary biology, will be released April 2, in the journal PloS One.

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Filed under: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs on April 2nd, 2008