Lightweights have an excuse

So lightweights can blame their parents, too.

"The variant, in a gene called CYP2E1, is associated with a person's response to alcohol. For the 10 to 20 percent of people that possess this variant, those first few drinks leave them feeling more inebriated than the rest of the human population, who harbor a different version of the gene.

Previous studies had shown that people who react strongly to alcohol were less likely to become alcoholics later in life."

So all those kids you drunk under the table in college actually had a valid excuse.