The prestigious journal Science published on Thursday, June 21, the article "Analysis of Shared Heritability in Common Disorders of the Brain", an ambitious international study that has confirmed a strong genetic correlation between psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism, bipolar disorder, major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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MútuaTerrassa collaborates in an international study that discovers the common genetic basis of psychiatric disorders
Dr. Amaia Hervás, coordinator of the Child and Juvenile Psychiatry Unit of HUMT, and Dr. MJ.Arranz, coordinator of the MútuaTerrassa Teaching and Research Foundation laboratory, participated in the work and their collaboration has been concretized with the contribution of various phenotypic samples.
Researchers from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB), the Center for Biomedical Research in Network of Rare Diseases (Ciberer), Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have also participated. ) and the San Juan de Dios Research Institute (IRSJD), among more than 500 experts from countries around the world.
The article notes that different psychiatric disorders share a large number of susceptibility genes, while in non-psychiatric neurological diseases, genetics is much more specific. The new research collects data on millions of common genetic variants in more than 800,000 people, among healthy patients and volunteers, which could be risk factors in 25 neurological and psychiatric disorders.