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"Using genetic data from more than 6 million people, the research team charted the shared genetic structure of 14 psychiatric conditions. Their analysis identified five major groups of disorders that share large portions of genetic risk. These findings represent a key advance in understanding how different psychiatric conditions are biologically connected and may help guide more effective clinical care."

Most individuals diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder will later receive at least one additional diagnosis during their lifetime, complicating both diagnosis and treatment. Although life experiences and environmental factors shape this risk, inherited genetic factors also contribute substantially.

This correlates with something my wife said to me the other day: people who suffer from one bad disease often also suffer from other bad diseases. It's like a small portion of the population will be carry most of the problems, kinda lika a pareto distribution of stuff: 20% of people suffer from 80% of the diseases.

Of course, if this was genetic or environmental, we could not say, but this study (published in Nature) seems to show that the former plays an important role in this occurrence of additional diagnosis for psychiatric disorders.

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