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Exploring the genetic link between RLS and ADHD.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Jul 2009
Schimmelmann B G, Friedel S, Nguyen T T, Sauer S, Ganz Vogel C I, Konrad K, Wilhelm C, Sinzig J, Renner T J, Romanos M, Palmason H, Dempfle A, Walitza S, Freitag C, Meyer J, Linder M, Schäfer H, Warnke A, Lesch K P, Herpertz-Dahlman B, Hinney A, Hebebrand J
Abstract excerpt
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood onset. Clinical and biological evidence points to shared common central nervous system (CNS) pathology of ADHD and restless legs syndrome (RLS). It was hypothesized that variants previously found to be associated with RLS in two large genome-wide association studies (GWA), will also be associated with...
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