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Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Apr 2019
Faraone Stephen V, Larsson Henrik
Abstract excerpt
Decades of research show that genes play an vital role in the etiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its comorbidity with other disorders. Family, twin, and adoption studies show that ADHD runs in families. ADHD's high heritability of 74% motivated the search for ADHD susceptibility genes. Genetic linkage studies show that the effects of DNA risk variants on ADHD must, individually, be...
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