You’ve likely heard people mention that they have inherited certain health conditions from their family. These are known as genetic disorders—conditions passed down from parents through DNA. In this ...

Abdel Abdellaoui is in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read the paper: Mapping the genetic landscape ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

At the genomic level, the researchers identified over 100 regions of the genome where genetic variants influence multiple disorders simultaneously. One region on chromosome 11 stood out as a "hotspot, ...

Genome-wide association studies identify genetic overlap among disorders, providing evidence that their distinctions may be misleading One major difference between psychiatric disorders and purely ...