Andrew Huberman· PhD
And there is evidence that issues with the use of alcohol and developing alcohol use disorder does run in families.
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And there is evidence that issues with the use of alcohol and developing alcohol use disorder does run in families.
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There's been a lot of work on like kind of genotyping to try to figure out could I tell you tell people, you know, what their genetic risk is for alcohol. And nothing is as good as just saying your parents alcoholic yeah or no. And if they were, that's like the most useful bit of information. or does you know does problem drinking run in your family? That kind of is crude to question as that is that's more useful than anything we have from snips or anything like that.
Uh no. I mean there is there is still risk there for sure, but the father to son link is the is the strongest one you see in in genetic studies.
this is for example based on studies showing that if you have a biological parent or grandparent addicted to alcohol you were at increased risk of getting addicted to alcohol than the general population even if raised outside of that Al alcohol using home