Genes Bring Clarity to Anorexia

摘要

>Anorexia nervosa ravages bodies. The well-known eating disorder tricks people into thinking they're overweight — to the point that they starve themselves, sometimes to death. "It's a mammoth effort to be able to do that," says Cynthia Bulik, a psychiatric researcher at the University of North Carolina. "Most bodies rebel against it." Bulik co-led a genome-wide analysis that revealed genetic links between anorexia and other psychiatric disorders.