Imaging gene and environmental effects on cerebellum in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and typical development.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effects of XKR4, a recently identified candidate gene for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), birth weight, and their interaction on brain volume in ADHD. XKR4 is expressed in cerebellum and low birth weight has been associated both with changes in cerebellum and with ADHD, probably due to its relation with prenatal adversity. Anatomical MRI scans were acquired in 58 children with ADHD and 64 typically developing controls and processed to obtain volumes of cerebrum, cerebellum and gray and white matter in each structure. DNA was collected from saliva. Analyses including data on birth weight were conducted in a subset of 37 children with ADHD and 51 controls where these data were retrospectively collected using questionnaires. There was an interactio

SUBMITTER: de Zeeuw P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3777835 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature