http://dagblog.com/link/same-genetic-basis-found-5-types-mental-illness-16273 Comments for "Same Genetic Basis Is Found in 5 Types of Mental Illness" en http://dagblog.com/comment/175302#comment-175302 <a id="comment-175302"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/175111#comment-175111">potential good news for us</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>some comments on this piece: <a href="http://defilingsubjectivities.blogspot.com/2013/03/these-categories-tell-you-something.html">http://defilingsubjectivities.blogspot.com/2013/03/these-categories-tell...</a></p> </div></div></div> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:09:41 +0000 Anonymous comment 175302 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/175111#comment-175111 <a id="comment-175111"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/175103#comment-175103">Mental illnesses share common</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">potential good news for us aspiring " older" fathers...my doctor's unhelpful response to my stated apprehension in re : an autistic kid:"what, you didn't freeze some sperm 50 years ago?"</div></div></div> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:53:36 +0000 jollyroger comment 175111 at http://dagblog.com http://dagblog.com/comment/175103#comment-175103 <a id="comment-175103"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/same-genetic-basis-found-5-types-mental-illness-16273">Same Genetic Basis Is Found in 5 Types of Mental Illness</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p><a href="http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/27/17121643-mental-illnesses-share-common-dna-roots-study-finds?lite">Mental illnesses share common DNA roots, study finds</a><br /> By Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, <em>NBC News,</em> Feb. 28, 2013</p> <p>The biggest study yet into genetics and mental health has come up with a stunning result: The five most common mental illnesses -- autism, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disease, schizophrenia and major depression -- all have a common genetic root.</p> <p>The finding, published in the journal <em>Lancet </em>on Wednesday, may eventually lead to a complete rewrite of the medical understanding of the causes of mental illness.</p> <p>"We have been able to discover specific genetic variants that seem to overlap among disorders that we think of as very clinically different,” Dr. Jordan Smoller of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who led the study, said in a telephone interview.</p> <p>The study does not explain every case of psychiatric disease, the researchers stress. “We think this is one tiny fraction of the genetic component of these disorders. They involve hundreds and possibly thousands of genes,” Smoller said. And it didn’t show every case was related. But it demonstrated on a genetic level that the five diseases are more like a continuum of dysfunction than five separate and discrete conditions. [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:15:25 +0000 artappraiser comment 175103 at http://dagblog.com