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Anorexia Nervosa Linked to Altered Gut Microbes, Blood Metabolites

Researchers performed metagenomic and metabolite profiling on samples from individuals with or without anorexia nervosa, highlighting pathogenesis-related changes.

Psychiatric Disorders Fall Into Groups With Shared Genetic Contributors in GWAS Meta-Analysis

A genome-wide association study meta-analysis of eight psychiatric conditions led to new and known risk loci, and revealed three distinct groups of conditions.

Anorexia GWAS Yields Risk Loci with Metabolic, Psychiatric Overlap

A large genome-wide association meta-analysis and follow-up analyses revealed eight risk loci involving SNPs previously associated with body traits, metabolism, and psychiatric risk.

Six Loci Linked to Personality Traits in Meta-Analysis

The international team of researchers also examined the genetic ties between personality traits and psychiatric disorders.

Study Links Two Gene Variants, One Pathway to Eating Disorder Risk

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers from the University of Iowa and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered variants in two related genes that appear to be associated with the risk of developing an eating disorder.
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Genetic Ancestry of South America's Indigenous Mapuche Traced

Researchers in Current Biology analyzed genome-wide data from more than five dozen Mapuche individuals to better understand their genetic history.

Study Finds Variants Linked to Diverticular Disease, Presents Polygenic Score

A new study in Cell Genomics reports on more than 150 genetic variants associated with risk of diverticular disease.

Mild, Severe Psoriasis Marked by Different Molecular Features, Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis Finds

A spatial transcriptomics paper in Science Immunology finds differences in cell and signaling pathway activity between mild and severe psoriasis.

ChatGPT Does As Well As Humans Answering Genetics Questions, Study Finds

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics had ChatGPT answer genetics-related questions, finding it was about 68 percent accurate, but sometimes gave different answers to the same question.