It is important that the results be replicated – but meanwhile the study of Lawson and colleagues [43] who studied groups of women with anorexia and controls and reported that they found higher oxytocin secretion in response to a meal associated with higher levels of disordered eating psychopathology in women with active and weight-recovered anorexia nervosa may be of relevance. This evidence concerns the gene OXT and anorexia nervosa.