Here's something you won't hear in the flood of uncritical media accounts that are destined to follow in the wake of this finding and its somewhat deceptively-worded press release:
It's not that Mexican Americans have some magic "alky" gene that makes them winos -- it's that Mexican Americans who happen to have a particular combination of gene variants are more prone to alcoholism, and oh by the way did we mention that we have yet to study this in any other race?
So please keep that in mind as you read the following.
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