
City or Country Life? Genetic Risk for Mental Illness May Decide
High genetic risk for a range of psychiatric illnesses appears to influence individuals’ choice of urban or rural life, new research suggests. Individuals with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (BD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or anorexia nervosa (AN) are significantly more likely to move from a rural to an urban setting, whereas those at high genetic risk for […]
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