Prediction of Heterogeneity in Intelligence and Adult Prognosis by Genetic Polymorphisms in the Dopamine System Among Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Author(s) -
Jonathan Mill,
Avshalom Caspi,
Benjamin Williams,
Ian Craig,
Alan Taylor,
Mónica Polo-Tomás,
Craig W. Berridge,
Richie Poulton,
Terrie E. Moffitt
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.63.4.462
Subject(s) - etiology , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , psychosocial , cohort , psychiatry , psychology , allele , medicine , pediatrics , clinical psychology , genetics , gene , biology
The study and treatment of psychiatric disorders is made difficult by the fact that patients with identical symptoms often differ markedly in their clinical features and presumably in their etiology. A principal aim of genetic research is to provide new information that can resolve such clinical heterogeneity and that can be incorporated into diagnostic practice.
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