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Excess alcohol intake can irreversibly change DNA: NIMHANS study

Excess alcohol intake can irreversibly change DNA: NIMHANS study

The Hindu
Saturday, February 13, 2021 07:09:05 AM UTC

It is common knowledge that excessive alcohol consumption is bad for health. But the assumption that all the damage can be set right after a person stops drinking is not true, according to researchers from NIMHANS. Excessive alcohol consumption can cause irreversible changes to the DNA and changes may persist even when alcohol is no longer consumed, revealed a study by researchers at NIMHANS including Pratima Murthy, HoD, Psychiatry, and Sanjeev Jain, Senior Professor of Psychiatry, who heads the Molecular Genetics Laboratory. The study, published online in the ‘American Journal of Medical Genetics’, is part of the PhD work of Soundarya Soundararajan under the guidance of Dr. Murthy.
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