Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) is a rare genetic disorder that severely affects how individuals interact with sunlight. People with XP have a genetic mutation that impairs their ability to repair ...

Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study. Lancet 373 , 234–239 (2009). Article CAS Google Scholar ...

(Such patients may receive a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type.) Both genetic and environmental factors can create vulnerability to bipolar disorder. As a result, the causes vary ...

Understanding the genetic etiology behind genetic disorders is a prerequisite for implementing novel therapeutic approaches and prevention strategies to decrease their burden at both family and ...

It is an extremely rare genetic disease characterized by the appearance of premature aging in children, affecting one child in every 4-8 million births. There are about 70 children worldwide ...

"I meet elderly women who have had eating disorders who whisper to me, 'My mother cooked all day long, but she never ate.'" "I think what we're learning is that the genetic predisposition ...

Baylor Medicine’s General Adult Genetics Clinic sees patients 18 years or older with a known diagnosis of genetic disease or in need of an evaluation for genetic diagnosis for an adult-onset disorder.

There is evidence indicating the disorder shares an underlying genetic architecture with schizophrenia, and social withdrawal is a characteristic of both disorders. Most important, people with ...

Certain rare genetic disorders may cause a child to develop obesity. Health experts may refer to these conditions as syndromic childhood obesity. They may affect a child’s metabolism or cause ...

Kunming, China - A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered compelling evidence of a genetic link between bipolar disorder type I (BD-I) and epilepsy, potentially ...

The study conducted by researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and published in Nature Genetics early this ... may still develop cannabis use disorders (CUD). However, further ...