Study Links Non-Brain Gene Variant to Anorexia Risk
Researchers found 17 of 154 anorexia patients carried rare PLIN4 variants, suggesting fat-storage pathways outside the brain may help drive disease risk.
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Researchers have found that patients with anorexia are nearly four times more likely to carry potentially harmful variants of a fat storage gene
However, a new investigation opens a different way: part of the willingness to develop this disorder may be related to the way the body stores and uses fat.The finding points to a gene whose activity is concentrated mainly in adipose tissue and muscle, and not in the brain.The study, published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, has found an association between certain rare and potentially harmful variants of the PLIN4 gene and ne…
Study Finds a Surprising Cause of Dangerous Eating Disorder
Rare changes in a gene involved in storing fat were more common in a selected group of people with anorexia than in a reference population, researchers have found. The gene is mainly active in body fat and muscle, pointing to a possible biological contribution outside the brain. The discovery adds to evidence that anorexia involves […]
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