Childhood Mental Health and Body Mass Index as Mediators of Genetic Risk for Eating Disorders
Our findings suggest that genetic liability to eating disorders manifests early in life through distinct metabolic and psychosocial pathways, highlighting a window for sex-specific targeted prevention.
Authors
- Adrianna P. Kępińska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3232-6289)
- Yen-Feng Lin
- Gerome Breen
- Chaoyu Liu
- Jonathan RI Coleman
- Jiayi Xu
- Laura M Huckins
- Cynthia Bulik
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- National Health Research Institutes (TW)
- King's College London (GB)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Yale University (US)
- Center for Genomic Science (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- medRxiv
- Published
- 2026-03-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.26347917
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- National Health Research Institutes
- National Science and Technology Council
- National Institutes of Health
- NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute of Mental Health