develop the psychiatric disorder) (Wilde et al., 2010). Importantly, in DeLisi and Bertisch’s 2004 survey, 27% of psychiatrists and 33% of psychiatric genetic researchers thought that testing as part of genetic research on schizophrenia would have no adverse consequences (DeLisi & Bertisch, 2006); and in another study the vast majority of bipolar patients and their spouses said the benefits of knowing whether a person carried a predisposing gene for bipolar disorder outweigh the risks (Trippitelli et al., 1998).
