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Rate of ADHD and season of birth

By |2016-10-05T06:46:14-04:00May 22nd, 2008|Categories: ADHD, Research|Tags: , , |

Brookes, et al. (2008) examined the relationship between season of birth (which has the unfortunate acronym "SoB") with rates of ADHD.  The authors found that there was a slightly significant amount of summer births in the ADHD sample compared to the control group.  The authors write... We also observed a significant association with the 7-repeat allele of the DRD4 gene [...]

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