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DEMONTIS, D., WALTERS, R. K., et al. [incl. co-author Oades (RDO)] Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperacriveity disorder, Nature Genetics, 51, 63-75. Abstract 0/ We report a genome-wide association
meta-analysis of 20,183 individuals diagnosed
with ADHD and 35,191 controls that identifies variants surpassing
genome-wide significance in 12 independent loci,
finding important new information about the underlying biology of ADHD.n
= 77,905 cases, n = 1,874,637 population controls 2/ Analyses of three replication studies: a cohort of individuals diagnosed with ADHD, a self-reported ADHD sample and a meta-analysis of quantitative measures of ADHD symptoms in the population, support these findings while highlighting study-specific differences on genetic overlap with educational attainment Strong concordance with GWAS of quantitative population measures of ADHD symptoms supports that clinical diagnosis of ADHD is an extreme expression of continuous heritable traits. |