Gene Variant Increases Risk for Alcoholism Following Childhood Abuse - June 26, 2007

Posted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases on June 26th, 2007 at 08:28am

Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop alcoholism later in life if they possess a particular variant of a gene involved in the body’s response to stress, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new finding could help explain why some individuals are more resilient to profound childhood trauma than others.

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