{"id":240376,"date":"2026-07-06T23:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder-share-70-of-their-genetic-roots-landmark-study-finds"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:03:47","slug":"schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder-share-70-of-their-genetic-roots-landmark-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder-share-70-of-their-genetic-roots-landmark-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Share 70% of Their Genetic Roots, Landmark Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/schizophrenia-and-bipolar-disorder-share-70-of-their-genetic-roots-landmark-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric disorders can share startlingly similar genetic roots.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/several-psychiatric-disorders-share-the-same-root-cause-study-reveals\">February last year<\/a>, scientists revealed their discovery that eight different psychiatric conditions all shared a common genetic basis.<\/p>\n<p>Another team then published a follow-up study in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-025-09820-3\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a> in December \u2013 the largest of its kind to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric disorders can share startlingly similar genetic roots. In February last year, scientists revealed their discovery that eight different psychiatric conditions all shared a common genetic basis. Another team then published a follow-up study in Nature in December \u2013 the largest of its kind to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}