This article is pure craziness! Who paid for this study!! Better yet who did the study… it is complete BS! His body adapted to his crazy lifestyle… He does not have any special genes… This article/study is actually comical!
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Ozzy Osbourne Is a Genetic Mutant
Gene Variants Let the Part-Neanderthal Rocker Party Hard Into His 60s Uncovering the Ozzy Genome.
Osbourne initially was skeptical about the project, he wrote Oct. 24 in his Sunday Times of London column, “The Wisdom of Oz,” but soon came around to the idea of offering his genetic code to science.
Sequencing the full Ozzy genome revealed fascinating details about the heavy metal Prince of Darkness.
“I was curious … given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years — not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol … you name it — there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,” he wrote in his column.
Not surprisingly, the most notable differences in Osbourne’s genes had to do with how he processes drugs and alcohol. Genes connected to addiction, alcoholism and the absorption of marijuana, opiates and methamphetamines all had unique variations in Osbourne, a few of which Knome geneticists had never seen before.
“He had a change on the regulatory region of the ADH4 gene, a gene associated with alcoholism, that we’ve never seen before,” Conde told ABCnews.com. “He has an increased predisposition for alcohol dependence of something like six times higher. He also had a slight increased risk for cocaine addiction, but he dismissed that. He said that if anyone has done as much cocaine he had, they would have been hooked.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/genetic-mutations-ozzy-osbourne-party-hard/stor-
y?id=12032552&page=2
What are your thoughts?
Ozzy Osbourne Is a Genetic Mutant
Gene Variants Let the Part-Neanderthal Rocker Party Hard Into His 60s Uncovering the Ozzy Genome.
Osbourne initially was skeptical about the project, he wrote Oct. 24 in his Sunday Times of London column, “The Wisdom of Oz,” but soon came around to the idea of offering his genetic code to science.
Sequencing the full Ozzy genome revealed fascinating details about the heavy metal Prince of Darkness.
“I was curious … given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years — not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol … you name it — there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why,” he wrote in his column.
Not surprisingly, the most notable differences in Osbourne’s genes had to do with how he processes drugs and alcohol. Genes connected to addiction, alcoholism and the absorption of marijuana, opiates and methamphetamines all had unique variations in Osbourne, a few of which Knome geneticists had never seen before.
“He had a change on the regulatory region of the ADH4 gene, a gene associated with alcoholism, that we’ve never seen before,” Conde told ABCnews.com. “He has an increased predisposition for alcohol dependence of something like six times higher. He also had a slight increased risk for cocaine addiction, but he dismissed that. He said that if anyone has done as much cocaine he had, they would have been hooked.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/genetic-mutations-ozzy-osbourne-party-hard/stor-
y?id=12032552&page=2
