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Posted 15 May 2010 - 09:07 AM

Addicted smokers at mercy of their genes, find scientists

http://www.news.com....i-1225858178469

Scientists Find Genes That Influence Brain Wave Patterns


Scientists have identified new genes and pathways that influence an individual's typical pattern of brain electrical activity, a trait that may serve as a useful surrogate marker for more genetically complex traits and diseases. One of the genes, for example, was found to be associated with alcoholism.

http://www.physorg.c...s191570658.html

The breakthrough has come after scientists identified three “super-genes”.
People born with the genes are 20 times more likely to reach a century – and 80 per cent less likely to develop the senility disease Alzheimer’s.

http://www.express.c...sts/view/155899
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