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A 5 page paper which examines the causes
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the disease of alcoholism. It is widely understood that alcoholism is a genetic disorder that is passed down from generation to generation. It is not just that a parent may
be an alcoholic and thus passes down the habit or tendency, the problem is clearly genetic in many cases, with the individuals showing far less tolerance for alcohol and having
serious problems with it that are very hereditary. The following paper examines the genetic causes and effects of alcoholism. Causes In order to understand the causes of alcoholism
we look at the actual genome to truly see some of the causes. Two authors note that "When studying complex diseases such as alcoholism that develop as a result of
numerous genetic and environmental factors, researchers can use the sequence data that have become available both for the human and for animal genomes. For these analyses, investigators are being aided
by efforts to identify and characterize functionally relevant DNA sequences in the entire genomic DNA sequence--a process called annotation" (Ehringer; Sikela, 2002; 181). Interestingly enough, though perhaps not surprising,
is the fact that alcoholism is one of the complex diseases that is caused by many gene disorders, rather than a single gene disorder. "For example, complex diseases are generally
more common than single-gene disorders, tend to involve multiple genes, also include significant environmental factors, and are associated with a variety of characteristics and behaviors, or phenotypes, that are not
simple to describe. To separate the multiple genetic and environmental components that underlie these diseases, researchers have developed more sophisticated methodological and statistical techniques" and yet they have perhaps not
clearly defined all of the causes that effect all alcoholics (Ehringer; Sikela, 2002; 181). It becomes obvious at this point that though genetics is a powerful element of alcoholism
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