Understanding What Social Drinking Really Is

If someone goes to parties nearly every day, they may be consuming a lot more alcohol than is healthy despite meeting the dictionary definition of a social drinker. But this doesn’t explain why Americans have been so receptive to the sales pitches. Some people have...

Is Alcoholism Hereditary or Genetic?

After years of family-based linkage studies and case-control candidate gene studies, attention has shifted to large scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for the detection of novel common variants (≥ 1%). Exome and whole genome sequencing studies for the...