{"id":87195,"date":"2019-01-30T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/hundreds-of-genes-affecting-tobacco-and-alcohol-use-discovered"},"modified":"2019-01-30T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:59:49","slug":"hundreds-of-genes-affecting-tobacco-and-alcohol-use-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/hundreds-of-genes-affecting-tobacco-and-alcohol-use-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of genes affecting tobacco and alcohol use discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hundreds-of-genes-affecting-tobacco-and-alcohol-use-discovered3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tobacco and alcohol use, both genetically inheritable behaviors, influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders and are leading causes of mortality.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Minnesota was part of a research collaboration that conducted the first study, recently published in <i>Nature Genetics<\/i>, to identify hundreds of genomic locations associated with addictive behaviors. Researchers found more than 500 genetic variants that affect the use of and addiction to tobacco and alcohol. Until now, only a few of such variants had been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers studied 1.2 million people and looked five characteristics including the age when a participant began smoking; the number of cigarettes per day the participant smoked; whether the participant has ever been a regular smoker; whether the participant ever quit smoking; and the number of alcoholic drinks the participant had per week.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-hundreds-genes-affecting-tobacco-alcohol.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;01-hundreds-genes-af...cohol.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco and alcohol use, both genetically inheritable behaviors, influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders and are leading causes of mortality. The University of Minnesota was part of a research collaboration that conducted the first study, recently published in Nature Genetics, to identify hundreds of genomic locations associated with addictive behaviors. Researchers found more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}