Eating disorder symptoms and their associations with anthropometric and psychiatric polygenic scores.
Mohamed AbdulkadirChristopher HübelMoritz P HerleRuth J F LoosGerome D BreenCynthia M BulikNadia MicaliPublished in: European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association (2022)
ED symptoms are genetically associated with psychiatric and anthropometric, but not with metabolic traits. Our findings provide insights for future genetic research investigating on why some individuals with ED symptoms progress to develop threshold EDs while others do not.