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Familiality and heritability of subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a population sample of adolescent female twins.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Nov 2001
Todd R D, Rasmussen E R, Neuman R J, Reich W, Hudziak J J, Bucholz K K, Madden P A, Heath A
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OBJECTIVE: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable but clinically heterogeneous syndrome. The study examined the familiality and heritability of ADHD subtypes as defined by DSM-IV and by latent-class analysis in a population sample of adolescent female twins. METHOD: To determine which elements of ADHD cluster together, latent-class analysis was applied to data obtained from parents...
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