Posted on 14 April 2013. Tags: alcohol abuse, environmental factors, genetics research, opioid receptors
Research shows that your genes may make you more or less likely to develop an alcohol addiction. According to research conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), many genes play a role in shaping a person’s risk for alcohol addiction, and alcoholism is a ‘genetically complex disease’ like heart disease and [...]
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Posted on 17 January 2013. Tags: absorption of calcium, immune cells, journal diabetes, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences
Continued research into the genetics of diabetes and nutritional treatment has resulted, among other things, in the coining of a new word, “nutrigenetics,” the study of interactions between food intake and genes. Vitamin D deficiency can be a problem for Type 2 diabetics, and investigators at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, [...]
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