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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Those damned Caucasians. Maybe it’s time to exterminate them as they’re clearly inferior genetically to the darker races.
This ONE SKIN color is associated with higher rates of crime and incarceration....
At least those university researchers won’t have to worry about losing their jobs.
It looks like the folks at Vermont University have run out of useful class room material to impart to their students……..
Amerindians don’t handle firewater well. what color eyes do they have?
This is racist!!
Per my research when I was younger, red squinty eyes is a link to Marijuana use. Maybe I should apply for a retroactive research grant.
Numbers no doubt badly skewed by the fact that Russians rarely put down the vodka.
Talk about your useless information.
Sounds like this is intended to apply to Caucasians. Asian, African, and Amerind people were excluded.
Well I am a blue eyes and alcohol is an utter bust to me. I might as well have swallowed a handful of sleeping pills.
They genteelly say it refers to European-Americans, another way to say Caucasian
Lemme guess... Bloodshot?
I’d like to see the database they pulled this from.
Every alcoholic I ever met had red eyes.
I’m also an American, not a European-American. (what ever the heck that is)
Sometimes a study is so stupid that it discredits itself on premise alone.
And if this color to conduct study is true, what about others?
>>Well I am a blue eyes and alcohol is an utter bust to me. I might as well have swallowed a handful of sleeping pills.<<
You just need practice ;)
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