Greek Coffee is consumed all day long- in the morning, lunchtime and evening!
The coffee culture in Greece It is a daily ritual that most people enjoy, whether it is alone reading the newspaper or catching up with friends at a busy cafe (before there was the coronavirus pandemic).
Research suggests that a positive feedback loop between genetics and the environment affects one’s coffee intake.
The study was published in Journal Behavioral GeneticsThis phenomenon, quantile-specific heritability is also associated with body weight and cholesterol levels. It is thought to play an important role in other human physiological traits and behavioural traits which defy simple explanations.
Paul Williams, a statistician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, stated that it appears that environmental factors set the stage for your genes to start to work.
Your environment can influence your ability to drink coffee more, such as your spouse, coworkers, or spouse who are avid coffee drinkers, or if you live in an area that has many cafes, this will make a bigger difference to your genetic predisposition to enjoy coffee. These two effects work together.
Williams analyzed 4,788 child-parent couples and 2,380 siblings from The Framingham Study, a well-known, ongoing study that was started by the National Institutes of Health in 1948. It aimed to determine how lifestyle and genetics influence rates of cardiovascular disease. Based on this data, Williams used statistical methods to calculate what proportion of the participants’ coffee drinking could be explained by genetics and what must be influenced by external factors.
We thought that we would be able to decode the human genome and understand how genes affect behaviour and medical conditions. Williams says that it has not worked out that way. Many traits, including coffee drinking, are genetically determined. We know this because coffee drinking is a family trait that runs through many families. However, if we look at the DNA, we often find that only a small percentage of traits can be attributed to genes.
The study pointed out that the situation was more complex and suggested that the methods used for arriving at the findings could help explain the diversity in traits that we see in real life. “This is a whole new area of exploration that is just now opening up. I think it will change, in a very fundamental way, how we think genes influence a person’s traits,” Williams said.
