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andymays
11-04-2010, 05:20 PM
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-report-reveals-ozzy-osbourne-is.html

Excerpt:

The 61-year-old former lead singer of Black Sabbath has several gene variants that "we've never seen before," experts said.

Geneticist Nathaniel Pearson, who sequenced the rocker's genome, including variants that could impact how Osbourne's body absorbs methamphetamines and other drugs, ABC News reported on its website today.

andymays
11-04-2010, 05:22 PM
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/new_study_shows_rocker_ozzy_osbourne_N1uA3Olx22SIJ lmIRRHfmK

Excerpt:

The biggest differences in Osbourne's genes compared to other people is how he processes drugs and booze.

Genes connected to addiction -- alcoholism and the absorption of 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 ABC News. "He has an increased predisposition for alcohol dependence of something like six times higher.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/new_study_shows_rocker_ozzy_osbourne_N1uA3Olx22SIJ lmIRRHfmK#ixzz14LpO98Jq

PaceAdvantage
11-04-2010, 08:55 PM
I know next to nothing about this line of science. Could his genes somehow been altered by whatever it was/is he's been taking all these years? :lol:

JustRalph
11-04-2010, 11:28 PM
I know next to nothing about this line of science. Could his genes somehow been altered by whatever it was/is he's been taking all these years? :lol:

That's the first thing I thought of............. :lol:

You mix the right chemicals and anything can happen