Study: Disparate Psychiatric Disorders Share Widespread Genetic Overlap
Results of a new meta-analysis indicate that psychiatric disorders like ADHD, OCD, and bipolar disorder likely share important similarities at a molecular level — an interrelationship that current diagnostic categories do not reflect.
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Can you please give some of the genetics related to ADHD and relate psychiatric disorders and more information about “the high degree of genetic correlation among the psychiatric disorders suggests that current clinical categories do not accurately reflect the underlying biology.” Is MTHFR one of the genes involved in these conditions? Thanks.
You can access more specifics by reading the study report here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6395/eaap8757.
Penny
ADDitude Community Moderator, Parenting ADHD Trainer & Author, Mom to teen w/ ADHD, LDs, and autism