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You'll have to do a genetic test. Nebula, 23andme, etc.

Then look at CYP1A2, see if you have the C/C genotype.

Definitely read the Genetic Life Hacks article that I linked to above.



Stay away from 23andme if you have any privacy concerns. I've worked with providers of DNA insights and advice that don't build their revenue model on selling your data. For example DNAPal.me


They do not sell your data; Facebook and Google also don't sell your data.

Your DNA is worthless[0] and impossible to hide. If someone did want your DNA there is nothing you could do to stop them. You leave it everywhere you go.

[0] except to your children you don't know you have


did you forget /s

They sell it to GlaxoSmithKline and others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

not to mention the recent data breach


Yeah, but why not support companies doing "the right thing" and nudge the trend towards companies that respect and preserve the privacy interests of their customers.


They do respect it. You have to sign up for research and fill out a thousand surveys before any of that data is used for… research.


So why's everyone making such a fuss about 23&me this week?


Journalists are kind of bad at understanding how things actually work.


I really wish there were more outlets like how for the legal/news junkie circuit we have things like MeidasTouch or whatever its called and the other YouTuber journalists (they deserve that umofficial title because what they do is top shelf journalism or at least investigative YouTubing.


CYP1A2 is the whole gene- you need to look at marker rs762551 within CYP1A2. Both the C/C and A/C genotype are slow caffeine metabolizers. The most common genotype is A/A, which is a fast metabolizer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/rs762551


Do you have a link to one that shows A/C? I'm only seeing C/C (I'm A/C so curious). Thanks!


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2014233/

This seems to be the original paper. I don't find this paper particularly meaningful, but the effects they did observe showed A/C and C/C to be about the same, and both different than A/A.

This is based on a 5 hour after caffeine ingestion blood test in smokers. They found no differences in the non-smokers, but those were urine tests taken at variable times (whenever they peed), which seems sketchy to me.

Based on this study, subsequent studies (e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16522833/) seem to group A/C and C/C together, and not look at them independently. C/C is rare enough that studies have trouble getting many individuals from that group.


So if C/C then slow metabolizer?


Correct. C/C is the genotype.

Marker rs762551, as another poster noted above.

For 23andme customers: https://you.23andme.com/tools/data/?query=rs762551


Thank you for sharing your link.

Groan, I'm A/C!!


That's great - this all came in time for me to run it by my doc today during an annual physical.




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