Is BDD genetic?

Is BDD genetic?

Jamie Feusner (Psychiatrist, Professor, UCLA) gives expert video advice on: What causes BDD?; Is BDD a brain disease?; What do MRI images tell us about the brains of people with BDD? and more...

BDD probably is genetic. We do have some information from family studies indicating that BDD tends to run in families of people with OCD, for example. There's been one study looking at a connection with a certain type of serotonin gene. So there may be some susceptibility of developing it related to the connection with this gene. I can almost say for sure there's not one gene for BDD, but there may be a gene or genes that predispose somebody to developing either OCD or BDD if something else happens along with that.