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Candidate gene studies in eating disorders
Federica Tozzi1, Andrew W Bergen, Cynthia M Bulik
1Department of Psychiatry at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Mass, USA.
Psychopharmacology Bulletin
|December 11, 2002
Abstract:
It has become increasingly clear that biological factors contribute to the etiology of eating disorders. Vulnerability to anorexia and bulimia nervosa is due, at least in part, to the effect of genes. The purpose of this paper is to review the extant literature on association studies of putative candidate genes for eating disorders.