Reframing anorexia nervosa as a metabo-psychiatric disorder

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe and frequently lethal illness for which there are no biologically informed evidence-based interventions, notwithstanding decades of research.Genome-wide association studies have identified significant loci that have been previously implicated in metabolic traits as well as robust significant genetic correlations between anorexia nervosa and psychiatric, anthropometric, and metabolic traits.An imbalance in the...