Determinants and Mechanisms Involved in Alcohol Consumption and its Health Consequences

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In the current proposed research, I will be using genetic, environmental and metabolite data from the UK Biobank, the Airwave health monitoring study and published genome-wide association studies as well as animal models in order to highlight determinants, mechanisms and pathways involved in alcohol consumption and related diseases. I will use UK Biobank data to study risk factors and determinants of alcohol consumption as well as diseases caused by alcohol consumption. By using alcohol consumption data and metabolites in the Airwave study, I will identify genes that are linked to alcohol-related metabolites. I will then test alcohol-metabolite genes in the UK Biobank study to highlight pathways that are linked to fat accumulation in liver via alcohol consumption. I will additionally test animal models to identify the underlying biology behind the association of genes and alcohol consumption.