Transcriptome profiling in adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Niall Mortimer, Cristina Sanchez-Mora, Paula Rovira, Laura Vilar-Ribo, Vanesa Richarte, Montse Corrales, Christian Fadeuilhe, Olga Rivero, Klaus-Peter Lesch, Miguel Casas, Josep Antoni Ramos-Quiroga, Maria Soler Artigas*, Marta Ribases*

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Abstract

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with an estimated heritability of around 70%. Although the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis on ADHD identified independent loci conferring risk to the disorder, the molecular mechanisms underlying the genetic basis of the disorder remain to be elucidated. To explore ADHD biology, we ran a two-step transcriptome profiling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of 143 ADHD subjects and 169 healthy controls. Through this exploratory study we found eight differentially expressed genes in ADHD. These results highlight promising candidate genes and gene pathways for ADHD and support the use of peripheral tissues to assess gene expression signatures for ADHD. (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)160-166
Number of pages7
JournalEuropean Neuropsychopharmacology
Volume41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020

Keywords

  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • Transcriptomic assays
  • Gene-expression signatures

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