Can a mother pass on the 'anorexia gene'? - Daily Mail 28th September 2007

Could anorexia be passed genetically from mother to daughter? That's the disturbing new theory being investigated by a professor of psychiatry at King's College, London. Janet Treasure, head of the Eating Disorders Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, says there are certain brain patterns - passed on in a woman's DNA - which can increase the risk of her falling prey to an eating disorder. So a woman could be described as carrying an "anorexia gene".

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