Genes, it turns out, are not always the tidy, well-separated units that textbook diagrams suggest. Across the tree of life, ...

Gene networks behind several unrelated illnesses showed surprising overlap, offering clues to why patients experience many of the same symptoms.

* Five shared genetic factors explain most inherited risk across 14 psychiatric disorders * Disorders within the same genetic group show minimal genetic differences * Findings //support biology-based ...

A multinational team of scientists presents new evidence supporting the theory that in at least some cases of schizophrenia, autism and intellectual disability, malfunctions in some of the same genes ...