Exploring the causal effects of genetic liability to ADHD and Autism on Alzheimer’s disease

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> There are very few studies investigating possible links between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Alzheimer’s disease and these have been limited by small sample sizes, diagnostic and recall bias. However, neurocognitive deficits affecting educational attainment in individuals with ADHD could be risk factors for Alzheimer’s l...

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• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Child
• Educational Status
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Intelligence
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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Literature Corpus work

3a88d46c-083b-52cd-bae8-c6afba0d4809

DOI

10.1101/2020.04.15.043380