While I was waiting for 23andMe genetic test results, I was wondering how I can learn about a relationship between genetics and mental health. It’s a tricky topic, of course, since there are many scientific debates if genes can affect risks of mental illnesses. If you do 23andMe test, you can request the information about health risks and receive insights about brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. However, you won’t find anything related to conditions such as ADHD, Schizophrenia, Autism, and so on. It makes total sense because we are not entirely sure what causes spectrum disorders. I looked up information about the 23andMe report, and it turned out you can download raw genetic data to use, for example, in 3rd-party applications. One of such apps is Genetic Genie where you can do methylation analysis of your genome. The test shows if you have a mutation in a specific gene at a particular location. What is interesting about it, that mutations can be considered to be...
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