Genetic risk factors

I was pleased to see Dr. Nasrallah’s April editorial (“Pleiotropy of psychiatric disorders will reinvent DSM,” Current Psychiatry, April 2013, p. 6-7; http://bit.ly/1DPgxZ7). It’s ironic that there is a growing realization of general genetic risk factors for psychiatric disorders with such different phenotypes even before DSM-5 has been published. This certainly thickens the plot; I’m glad Dr. Nasrallah made it clear to Current Psychiatry readers.

Samuel Barondes, MD
Professor
Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

I was pleased to see Dr. Nasrallah’s April editorial (“Pleiotropy of psychiatric disorders will reinvent DSM,” Current Psychiatry, April 2013, p. 6-7; http://bit.ly/1DPgxZ7). It’s ironic that there is a growing realization of general genetic risk factors for psychiatric disorders with such different phenotypes even before DSM-5 has been published. This certainly thickens the plot; I’m glad Dr. Nasrallah made it clear to Current Psychiatry readers.

Samuel Barondes, MD
Professor
Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

I was pleased to see Dr. Nasrallah’s April editorial (“Pleiotropy of psychiatric disorders will reinvent DSM,” Current Psychiatry, April 2013, p. 6-7; http://bit.ly/1DPgxZ7). It’s ironic that there is a growing realization of general genetic risk factors for psychiatric disorders with such different phenotypes even before DSM-5 has been published. This certainly thickens the plot; I’m glad Dr. Nasrallah made it clear to Current Psychiatry readers.

Samuel Barondes, MD
Professor
Jeanne and Sanford Robertson Endowed Chair in Neurobiology and Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA