 | ADULT ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER: BRAIN MECHANISMS AND LIFE OUTCOMES
Copyright © 2001 by the New York Academy of Sciences
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 931:50-83 (2001)
© 2001 New York Academy of Sciences
Clinical and Molecular Genetics of ADHD and Tourette Syndrome
Two Related Polygenic Disorders
DAVID E. COMINGS
Department of Medical Genetics, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010, USA
Address for correspondence: David E. Comings, M.D., Department of Medical Genetics, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010, USA. Voice: 818-359-8111.
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ADHD is a polygenic disorder due to the additive effect of genes affecting dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, GABA, and other neurotransmitters. Some of the specific loci involved are dopamine genes— DRD2, DRD4, DRD5, and the dopamine transporter; norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (EPI) genes— dopamine b- hydroxylase, ADRA2A, ADRA2C, PNMT, norepinephrine transporter, MAOA, COMT; serotonin genes— TDO2, HTR1A, HTR1DA, serotonin transporter; GABA genes— GABRB3; androgen receptor and other genes. This model is consistent with all of the present knowledge about ADHD including (a) the increased frequency of ADHD in the relatives of ADHD probands, (b) the presence of a wide spectrum of comorbid behaviors (depression, anxiety, learning, conduct, oppositional-defiant, conduct and substance abuse disorders) in ADHD probands and their relatives on both parental sides, (c) the close relationship to Tourette syndrome (TS), (d) the failure to find the genes for TS using linkage analysis, (e) the brain imaging studies showing hypometabolism of the frontal lobes, (f) the relationship between dopamine D 2 receptor density and regional blood flow, (g) the correlation between tics and dopamine D 2 receptor density in TS, (h) the motor hyperactivity of dopamine transporter and dopamine D 3 receptor gene knockout mice, (i) the LeMoal and Shaywitz dopamine deficiency animal models of ADHD, (j) the NE models of ADHD, (k) the failure to explain ADHD on the basis of any single neurotransmitter defect, (l) the response of ADHD to dopamine and a 2-adrenergic agonists, (m) the small percentage of the variance of specific behaviors accounted for by each gene, and numerous other aspects of ADHD. The implications of the polygenic model for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and TS, as well as other psychiatric disorders, are reviewed.
Key Words: ADD • Attention deficit disorder • Dopamine • Transporter • GABA • Receptors
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