The Collaborative studious mood on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA).The Collaborative studious mood on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), a multicenter application of mind analyzing the genetic factors contributing to alcohol buttress also has given researchers the opportunity to investigate the genetic factors that may determine risk for habitual smoking. Dr Laura Jean Bierut, Marc A. Schuckit, Victor Hesselbrock, and Theodore Reich report that the COGA research has provided evidence that risk for alcoholism and habitual smoking may be inherited. populace with alcoholic parents reported substantially higher rates of the couple alcohol dependence and habitual smoking than did those with parents who were not alcohol contingent COGA researchers are using advanced techniques (i.e., candidate gene studies and genomic screening) to identify the factors that may be behind this genetic link. as it is investigations have located a number of regions onward the human chromosomes that may contain candidate gene contributing to the risk for alcohol connection some of which also may contribute to the risk of habitual smok ing. (pp 233-241) COPYRIGHT 2000 U restraint Printing Office |
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