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Alcohol sensitivity
Is feeling of drunkenness after relatively few alcoholic drinks. Researchers at unc, chapel hill, found that those people have variation in the gene cyp2e1 which metabolizes alcohol in brain, making those people less likely to become alcoholics in future, due to such intolerance.
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