Drinking alcoholic beverages in large quantities can lead to serious addiction. Consequences can be personal and family ruin, numerous diseases… In some parts of the world alcoholism is much rarer than in other places, nevertheless alcoholic beverages are nowadays present almost everywhere in the world. Reason is that some people tolerate alcohol very poorly. A flush appears, sickness and headache, all being result of genetic variation in gene coding ALDH2 enzyme. A defective enzyme doesn’t work properly and toxic compounds from alcohol degradation are not eliminated. Is your alcoholic tolerance very low too, and you never knew the reason for it? GenePlanet can help you answer this question with genotypisation.
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