Study commissioned into alcoholism in American Samoa 02 December, 2008
A preliminary study about the genetics of alcoholism in American Samoa has been commissioned by the U.S. National Institute of Health.
The study will be carried out by addiction psychiatrist Dr. Robert Swift from Brown University in Providence Rhode Island, and the Director of Brown International Health Institute Dr. Stephen McGarvey.
Dr. Swift says Samoan levels of alcoholism are no different to the rest of the world but they have chosen Samoans to study because they are very genetically similar.
He says it’s easier to find the genetic basis of different conditions in a group of people with similar genes.
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