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High prevalence of rare dopamine receptor D4 alleles in children diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 May 2003
Grady D L, Chi H-C, Ding Y-C, Smith M, Wang E, Schuck S, Flodman P, Spence M A, Swanson J M, Moyzis R K
Abstract excerpt
Associations have been reported of the 7-repeat (7R) allele of the human dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene with both the personality trait of novelty seeking and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The increased prevalence of the 7R allele in ADHD probands is consistent with the common variant-common disorder hypothesis, which proposes that the high frequency of many complex genetic disorders is...
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