Bad mix: Heavy beer drinking and a gene variant increases gastric cancer risk

Monday, April 4, 2011 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Heavy beer drinkers who have a specific genetic variant in the cluster of three genes that metabolize alcohol are at significantly higher risk of developing non-cardia gastric cancer, according to new research.

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