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Posted by ajc13 (Member # 5841) on :

Found this on Reuters Health:
Gene found for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I just finished Children and then I catch this. Need to do some research to see when the actual connection was made ... sugesting OCD was tied to a Gene.

*ponder*

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Thanks for that. There was a thread on the other side where some of the data showed no identical twin data supporting OCD being genetic. I was thinking that was kind of weird. But it was a much smaller sample and it was symptom based, not a gene study.

Posted by ssywak (Member # 807) on :

Apparently, the scientists just kept looking, and looking, and looking, and looking for it until they found it.

Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :

That makes sense, since my grandma is OCD, my mom is OCD (but not as bad as my grandmother), and I have some obsessive compulsive tendencies...

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

ssywak [ROFL]