How many times has it happened that you have been unable to give up the temptation to smoke, gotten drunk at just the second shot of vodka or just not able to wake in the morning for that jog you always planned on taking! It turns out some of those traits might actually not be your fault. Genes are responsible for certain physical attributes such as the color of your hair and eyes, the shape of your nose and whether or not you have dimples, but also certain behavioral traits are hereditary and not environment related so but the next time someone points out your flaws you can blame them on your genes. Here are the top 10 things you could blame your genes for:
想想这样的事情在你身上发生过多少次了：戒不掉的烟瘾，明明不胜酒力却偏要喝酒，打算早起晨跑却总是睡懒觉。实际上，这可能不是你的错。很多外在特征都源于基因的影响，比如你头发和眼睛的颜色、鼻子的形状、是否有酒窝，不仅如此，很多特定的内在行为特征也受遗传影响，与环境因素倒没多大关系。所以下次如果有人指出你的缺点，你大可以将其归咎于基因。下面是10件可以怪罪于基因的事：

10.Early Onset Myopia (Childhood Nearsightedness)
10.早发性近视（儿童近视）

Myopia or nearsightedness causes the eyes to see nearby objects clearly but far away objects out of focus.So if you have been saddled with glasses since you were young, it is likely that this tendency is higher if one or both of your parents are myopic as well. Hence genetic factors apart from environmental factors such as stress influence myopia. Multiple family studies report a relationship between myopia in parents to myopia in their children. Furthermore, children with a family history of myopia have, on eye exam,revealed changes within the structures of the eye that increase their probability of developing myopia which leads to the conclusion that our genetic make up indeed is responsible for eye growth. The next time your mom berates you for watching too much television and ruining your eyes, you can bargain for more time with the argument that you have a greater probability of that happening due to heredity!
近视的人能清楚地看到近处的物体，但看不清远处的物体。如果你的父母其中一方或者双方都存在近视的问题，那么你小时候就要戴上眼镜的可能性会更高。因此，除了诸如压力之类的环境因素会影响近视之外，基因也会影响近视。多个家庭的研究报告中显示了家长近视与孩子近视的密切联系。此外，家族史上有近视眼的孩子做了眼科检查后，结果显示其眼睛结构的变化使孩子近视的几率增加，由此我们得出结论，基因的构成确实会影响视力。

9.Alcoholism
9.酗酒

Lucky for all you binge drinkers out there, recent studies indicate that the development of alcoholism is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. "It appears that the development of alcoholism is not a case of genetics versus the environment; it is one of genetics and the environment," says Dr. Ting-Kai Li, distinguished professor of medicine and biochemistry at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Family studies have proven for a fact that their genes do influence alcoholism and that your drinking behavior as well alcohol tolerance level is impacted by genetic differences. So the occasional,"it's in my genes", wouldn't be a wrong statement to justify your drinking!
最近的研究表明，酗酒受基因和环境因素的双重影响，这对酗酒的人来说可能是个好消息。印第安纳波利斯的印第安纳大学医学院杰出的医学和生物化学教授Ting-Kai Li说："现在看来，酗酒是受基因和环境因素的共同影响，这二者并非是对立的。"家庭研究已经证实基因确实会影响酗酒，并且人们的饮酒行为以及酒精耐受度都会受到遗传差异的影响。所以，偶尔用"这是我的基因问题"来为自己的酗酒行为开脱似乎也是可以的。

8.Baldness
8.秃顶

About 95% of hair loss from the scalp comes from heredity. If your grandparents and or your parents sport the bald patch, you may inherit that as well. Called male pattern baldness (MBP) this hair loss can start as early as in your thirties and ends in complete baldness. Balding can skip generations and it is randomly incident among siblings, so if you are lucky enough maybe you don't possess the gene to make you follically challenged otherwise, at present there is no way to avoid male pattern baldness from happening so hope you look as good as Vin diesel when genetics takes over.
头皮上的头发脱落，其大约95%的原因归咎于遗传。如果你的祖父母或父母是秃顶，那么你很可能也会秃顶。这种脱发，被称为"男性型脱发"（MBP），会在你30几岁的时候开始，直至最后完全秃顶。秃顶可能会隔代遗传而且基因在子女间是随机重组的，因而如果你运气够好，你可能不会遗传那种会使你秃顶的基因。否则，你秃顶的趋势将势不可挡，唯有希望你会像范·迪塞尔那样英俊有型。

7.Gambling
7.赌博

Apparently the probability of you being a gambler is much higher than your probability of winning in roulette, if one of your parents is addicted to throwing the dice. According to a new study of Australian twins, scientists have found that genes play a role in a number of addictions which includes gambling . Researcher Wendy Slutske of the University of Missouri told Reuters Health, "Previous research in men showed that gambling addiction can run in the family,This study extends those findings to include women." If you find yourself unable to control yourself from going into the casino you know who to blame!
显而易见，如果你的父母有一方沉迷于掷骰子，那么你成为赌徒的可能性就远高于你取得轮盘赌胜利的概率。根据一项以澳大利亚的一对双胞胎为研究对象的最新调查，科学家们发现基因对于许多不良嗜好的形成（其中包括赌博）具有一定的影响。美国密苏里大学研究者 Wendy Slutske 也向路透社健康专栏透露道："之前对男性的研究发现赌博成瘾会在家族中遗传，而这项研究表明女性赌博成瘾也是可以遗传的。"所以如果你发现自己无法控制不去赌场，那你一定知道该怪谁了吧！

6.Laziness
6.懒惰

Turns out that your inclination to be a couch potato is not really a sin! According to a new US research, genes do act as a deciding factor in deciding your level of activity and motivation for the same. Researchers from the University of Missouri reached the above conclusion by performing the experiment by breeding rats which were either extremely active or extremely indolent, selectively. Researcher Frank Booth said and I quote, "We have shown that it is possible to be genetically predisposed to being lazy," This could be an important step in identifying additional causes for obesity in humans. It would be very useful to know if a person is genetically predisposed to having a lack of motivation to exercise, because that could potentially make them more likely to grow obese."
根据美国一项新的研究结果，实际上，人们有倾向成为一个"沙发土豆"（即电视迷）并不是一种罪过。来自密苏里大学的研究人员通过有选择性地繁殖特别活跃或特别懒惰的老鼠，得出了以下结论：在影响你的行为和动机水平上，基因同样起到了决定性作用。在这里我引用研究者弗兰克·布斯的原话，"我们的研究结果已经表明，懒惰可能是会遗传的，在确证人类肥胖症的其他原因上，懒惰可能会成为一项重要的参考。这可以帮助我们快速知道一个人是否是因为懒惰而导致缺乏运动的动力，因为那样他们变胖的可能性更大。"

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