Review: Genetics of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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The genetics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable, disruptive, childhood-onset condition, the aetiology and pathogenesis of which is poorly understood. There have been relatively few genome-wide linkage studies, and no chromosomal region has yet been unequivocally implicated. In contrast, evidence from pharmacological, neuroimaging and animal studies has suggested the involv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pediatric Psychology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0146-8693,1465-735X
DOI: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsn049