Towards an etiological understanding of the comorbidity of psychiatric disorders

精神障碍是一种常见的遗传病和环境病。这些疾病的特点是症状的显著重叠和疾病内部症状的显著异质性。全基因组基因型的可用性使我们第一次能够直接在分子水平上研究合并症。了解疾病间合并症的本质是有效治疗的重要关键。

Pyschiatric disorders are common disorders with both genetic and environmental etilogy. The disorders are characterised both by significant overlap of symptoms and by significant heterogenity of symptoms within disorders. The availability of genome-wide genotypes allows us, for the first time, to investigate co-morbidity directly at the molecular level. Understanding the nature of co-morbidity between disorders nay be an important key to effective treatment.