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Researchers Discover Dozens of Genes Tied to OCD and Tic Disorders

A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders - providing what two researchers said is the most detailed biological understanding of how these conditions develop - and how they might eventually be treated. Before this study, published in Nature Neuroscience, scientists had found a few genetic clues, each linked separately to OCD or chronic tic disorders.

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