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Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder- and Substance-Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies
2019-08-23
Abstract excerpt
Eating disorders and substance use disorders frequently co-occur. Twin studies reveal shared genetic variance between liabilities to eating disorders and substance use, with the strongest associations between symptoms of bulimia nervosa (BN) and problem alcohol use (genetic correlation [ r g ], twin-based=0.23-0.53). We estimated the genetic correlation between eating disorder and substance use and disorder pheno...
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- a0d84da9-40d2-5d2b-90a6-cbf9e702eba1
- DOI
- 10.1101/741512
