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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder endophenotypes.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Jun 2005
Doyle Alysa E, Willcutt Erik G, Seidman Larry J, Biederman Joseph, Chouinard Virginie-Anne, Silva Julie, Faraone Stephen V
Abstract excerpt
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable disorder with a multifactorial pattern of inheritance. For complex conditions such as this, biologically based phenotypes that lie in the pathway from genes to behavior may provide a more powerful target for molecular genetic studies than the disorder as a whole. Although their use in ADHD is relatively new, such "endophenotypes" have aided the...
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