Academic textbooks [corrected] on ADHD genetics: balanced or biased?

ABSTRACT: Academic text books [corrected] are essential assets for disseminating knowledge about ADHD to future healthcare professionals. This study examined if they are balanced with regard to genetics. We selected and analyzed study books (N=43) used in (pre) master's programmes at 10 universities in the Netherlands. Because the mere behaviourally informed quantitative genetics give a much higher effect size of the genetic involvement in ADHD, it is important that text books [corrected] contrast these findings with molecular genetics' outcomes. The latter studies use real genetic data, and their low effect sizes expose the potential weaknesses of quantitative genetics, like underestimating the involvement of the environment. Only a quarter of books mention both effect sizes and contrast these find

SUBMITTER: Te Meerman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5510215 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature