date:May 08, 2019
e-wide association study of beverage consumption based on taste perspective, says Victor Zhong, the study's first author and postdoctoral fellow in preventive medicine at Northwestern. Its also the most comprehensive genome-wide association study of beverage consumption to date.
Cornelis did find one variant in a gene, called FTO, linked to sugar-sweetened drinks. People who had a variant in the FTO gene the same variant previously related to lower risk of obesity surprisingly preferred sugar