Article
Family-based association study of serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: no evidence for association in UK and Taiwanese samples.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Nov 2005
Xu Xiaohui, Mill Jonathan, Chen Chi-Ken, Brookes Keeley, Taylor Eric, Asherson Philip
Abstract excerpt
Five independent studies have reported associations between serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT) polymorphisms and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Four studies found evidence for association between the long-allele of a 44-base pair insertion/deletion polymorphism (5-HTTLPR), one of the studies found association to a variable number tandem repeat within intron 2, another to the T-allele of a single...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Case-Control Studies
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans