Leveraging psychiatric and medical genetics to understand comorbid depression and obesity.

Precision medicine in psychiatry is on the rise, and depression and obesity - two highly prevalent, comorbid and well-characterised phenotypes - are optimal targets for the approach. Add the bedrock susceptibility gene, FTO , and Riviera et al have identified a constellation of factors that could enhance clinical treatment of both disorders.
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