Study of 31,000 Twins Shows Eating Disorders to be Genetic

The eating disorders anorexia and binge eating may run in families, according to two new studies.

Both studies appear in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The first study showed that genetic factors accounted for more than half of anorexia cases among more than 31,000 twins in Sweden.

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