Researchers find anorexia genetic variants, redefine it as metabolic and psychiatric

(University of North Carolina Health Care) The large-scale genome-wide association study, led by UNC's Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, and Gerome Breen, Ph.D., of King's College London suggests that the origins of the eating disorder include a combination of metabolic and psychiatric components.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news