Article
Differential dopamine receptor D4 allele association with ADHD dependent of proband season of birth.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 5 Jan 2008
Brookes K J, Neale B, Xu X, Thapar A, Gill M, Langley K, Hawi Z, Mill J, Taylor E, Franke B, Chen W, Ebstein R, Buitelaar J, Banaschewski T, Sonuga-Barke E, Eisenberg J, Manor I, Miranda A, Oades R D, Roeyers H, Rothenberger A, Sergeant J, Steinhausen H C, Faraone S V, Asherson P
Abstract excerpt
Season of birth (SOB) has been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in two existing studies. One further study reported an interaction between SOB and genotypes of the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene. It is important that these findings are further investigated to confirm or refute the findings. In this study, we investigated the SOB association with ADHD in four independent samples...
Topics
- Alleles
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Male
