A major genetics study finds anxiety is heritable and shares significant genetic overlap with heart disease, gut disorders, and migraine, revealing the biological basis of the condition. The findings could reshape how anxiety is understood and treated across medical disciplines.
Space Daily · Wednesday, 10 June 2026
The question of whether anxiety is primarily a condition of the mind or of the body has never resolved cleanly, and a major new genetics study published yesterday does not resolve it either. What it does is sharpen the picture of how anxiety’s biological root…
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