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Interesting Research

chemnut
chemnut
I came accross this short news release and thought I'd share it:

http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/03/five-mental-illnesses-share-genetic-links?et_cid=3117771&et_rid=210275182&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.laboratoryequipment.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f03%2ffive-mental-illnesses-share-genetic-links
Community Leaderacuriousfish
acuriousfish
thanks for sharing. I was aware of a genetic link between schizophrenia and bipolar and also anecdotally psychiatrists know autism/ aspergers is often comorbid with bipolar - this backs that up.

The autism - bipolar link is particularly interesting because autism is developmental and generally thought to be irreversible, bipolar is late onset and can be treated so they seemed on the face of it to be totally diferent.

Also of interest is that they found 4 regions on the chromosomes so there are a lot of genes involved.

I think I'll share the link with the BP board and my own member group. thanks again.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Interesting info. I've always thought that ADHD and bipolar were related. On my husband's side, there are three bipolar fathers with ADHD sons.

That also means they may really have bipolar that looks like ADHD when children. But my son has had neuro psych tests and everything points to ADHD not bipolar - at this time.

Anyway, interesting stuff.
sigmund2
sigmund2
Explains why i am the only bipolar person i know of in the family. Others are add
Community Leaderacuriousfish
acuriousfish
bump to restack board - 2
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