Home » Psychology news » Mental disorders linked by genetic traits
Mental disorders linked by genetic traits
August 14, 2013 by NewsBot
Researchers have discovered that five major mental disorders may be linked to the same common inherited genetic variations, according to a study published in the journal Nature Genetics. Scientists from the Cross Disorders Group of the Psychiatric Genomic Consortium (PGC) used genome-wide genotype data in an analysis of people with five psychiatric disorders, alongside controls...