Interaction between ADH1B*3 and alcohol-facilitating social environments in alcohol behaviors among college students of african descent.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Although alcohol-facilitating social environmental factors, such as alcohol offers and high perceived peer drinking norms, have been extensively studied as determinants of college drinking, their role among college students of African descent remains understudied. Furthermore, gene-environment interaction research suggests that the effects of alcohol-facilitating environments may differ as a function of genetic factors. Specifically, the alcohol dehydrogenase gene's ADH1B*3 allele, found almost exclusively in persons of African descent, may modulate the association of risky social environments with alcohol behaviors. The current study examined whether the ADH1B*3 allele attenuated the relationship between alcohol-facilitating environments (ie, alcohol offe

SUBMITTER: Desalu JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5636222 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature