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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-9
pubmed:abstractText
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric disorder influenced by genetic factors. Several chromosomal regions with potential linkage and candidate genes associations have been reported, but findings are often inconsistent and non-replicated. The few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) carried out so far differ for study design and phenotypes analyzed, and did not detect any association significant at the genome-wide level. In the present study we examined the top SNPs reported in the GWAS by Neale et al. 2008 in an independent cohort. Although our sample size is smaller (415 trios vs. 909), the power was sufficient to confirm the role of candidate markers in ADHD if a true association exists. Two out of 36 top SNPs were significant at alpha = 0.05 in our sample, although none was still significant after correction for multiple tests. These two SNPs are both located in genes coding for as yet uncharacterized proteins expressed in the cerebellum, XKR4 in 8q12.1, and FAM190A in 4q22.1. Three other FAM190A SNPs have TDT P-values of <10(-5) in our sample, a level of significance only reached by a total of five SNPs in our genome-wide data. While these findings could be due to chance, we cannot exclude that these markers are indeed associated to disease risk. Remarkably, brain imaging studies have shown reduction of the posterior inferior cerebellar lobules volume of ADHD boys and girls compared to controls, persistent with age and not present in unaffected siblings, suggesting that the cerebellum may be directly related to pathophysiology of ADHD.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1552-485X
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
153B
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1127-33
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Cerebellum, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Child, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Genetic Markers, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Genome, Human, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Genome-Wide Association Study, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:20607790-Young Adult
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Analysis of GWAS top hits in ADHD suggests association to two polymorphisms located in genes expressed in the cerebellum.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Science Center, 3440 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural