Shared heritability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder

@article{Rommelse2010SharedHO,
  title={Shared heritability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder},
  author={Nanda N. J. Rommelse and Barbara Franke and Hilde M. Geurts and Catharina A. Hartman and Jan K. Buitelaar},
  journal={European Child \& Adolescent Psychiatry},
  year={2010},
  volume={19},
  pages={281 - 295}
}
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are both highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorders. Evidence indicates both disorders co-occur with a high frequency, in 20–50% of children with ADHD meeting criteria for ASD and in 30-80% of ASD children meeting criteria for ADHD. This review will provide an overview on all available studies [family based, twin, candidate gene, linkage, and genome wide association (GWA) studies] shedding light on the role of… 
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