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Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected With ADHD (arstechnica.com)
A paper published in Nature Genetics this week looked at genetic data from more than 50,000 people, finding 12 different regions of DNA that seemed to play a role in increasing ADHD risk. Ars Technica reports: This evidence comes from a genome-wide association study, or GWAS: a close look at how the DNA of people with ADHD differs from those without. Geneticist Ditte Demontis and her colleagues used data from more than 20,000 people with ADHD, comparing them to a control group of 35,000 people without an ADHD diagnosis. They found 304 points where tiny differences in DNA -- like single letter swaps -- were distributed across their two groups in a statistically telling way. If any of those variants were very close together, the researchers counted them as representing the same stretch of DNA, grouping them together into 12 important regions.
There were correlations between the genetic risk for ADHD and a range of other conditions, including depression and anorexia. That ties in with the idea that genetic variation might be important in a way that plays out system-wide. Some of the genes they identified are also known to be involved in other neurological conditions, including speech and learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia.
There were correlations between the genetic risk for ADHD and a range of other conditions, including depression and anorexia. That ties in with the idea that genetic variation might be important in a way that plays out system-wide. Some of the genes they identified are also known to be involved in other neurological conditions, including speech and learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia.
They had Trump's DNA on file.
You get to do speed, legal.
Abhorrent behavior, you mean the Trump gene. It's associated with lying and retardation. Get tested today.
You only call it a gay gene if he dont like you. You also call it an ADHD gene if he dont pay attention to you. Maybe he just has a reason
But has anyone asked how Trump's massive GUT feels about the science?
You already failed it faggot
Sorry I cant keep up. What?
Homo gene found ^
QAnon = gay Republican meetup code. You fell for it and are now a cocksucker for life. Too bad.
Your jeans and cowboy boots do make you look gay AF, yes.
Thanks, I know. I'm not a Trumptard. I've never had Putin holding my balls for me like you Dickless Donnies.
If humanity is to have any hope, it's going to come from the ADHD side of things. Cure all the diseases you want to, but please for the love of god, allow the natural flowering of creativity.
Don't allow us to make drones and brainiacs - that will snuff out the species faster than any other eugenics program could.
Sorry I cant keep up. What?
That's your Down gene.
The Researchers kept getting distracted :(
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Speaking of bigotted bullshit, why is it when someone gets Down's Syndrome, they turn into an ASIAN regardless of their original race?
I'll be a lot more interested if they manage to locate genes connected with nymphomania...and a simple, anonymous test to find out who has them.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
in a four wall box all day long doing meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system or learning to do meaningless tasks for a giant abstract system that normal healthy humans naturally want to do.
Funny how ADHD is really only a US thing
No, ADHD is the disease of not being able to brush your fucking teeth and also figure out where you left your briefcase before you leave for work because you are too fucking distracted to focus and can't remember shit (poor working memory).
You obviously have no intimate experience with ADHD.
Is to get start their own country.
The shambling hordes are not our people, and trying to conform to their expectations of society is only going to crush us under their mindless mass if something isn't done soon.
The opportunities to do so on this planet are dwindling rapidly, and unless something changes the opportunities 'out there' are going to be corporate controlled and return to the status quo when you are billed for every atom of oxygen you consume in order to stay alive.
Funny how ADHD is really only a US thing
It's not.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Yeah thats every kid diagnosed and strung on Ritalin because their soccer mom can't handle them.
Your mom did a horrible job, that much is agreed. She filled you full of bullshit.
Hmmm? We know why. There ain't one.
Did they analyze the genetic mechanisms at work and the brain functions and understand the mechanism so that they can definitively say X causes Y by mechanism Z --- OR --- did they do another corollation-causation statistical study?
Yup. Just another logical fallacy reported as a scientific breakthrough; these "researchers" (who did no actual research) learned nothing new about brains or genetics, they just lined-up to things (genes and a condition).
Everybody who has eaten chocolate chip cookies has either already died or will certainly die. WOW! New study shows that chocolate chip cookies KILL!!!!!!
Sounds like they discovered a handful of important human genotype locations and nothing else...
There is no such thing as 'ADHD'. You might as well make up a magical term for 'people who don't like onions' and label that as a 'disorder', and then treat it with drugs.
The school system is a massive waste of time - any idiot can see that. Children who start off stupid when they are five in school, end up STILL stupid when they leave at sixteen. I have never seen ANY child improve in any way, in terms of intelligence, in school, while I was there. The thick kids stayed thick, caused trouble, and were generally assholes, and the intelligent kids stayed intelligent, (in spite of the presence of the aforementioned thick kids).
ADHD means "not wanting to be forced to sit still and read a load of boring crap that you are going to forget within a week and will NEVER need to know ever again in your life". It's a MADE UP 'illness'. Only idiots believe it exists.
parent: "strung on Ritalin because their soccer mom can't handle them."
You misspelled frigid divorced single soccer mom whose hysteria is driven by the fact that she can't get her nut off even with the aid of a 15 amp industrial vibrator".
You should have explained what ADHD means.
In France there's no market (=medicine) for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder so we're not familiar with this acronym.
Yes, shitty parenting that results in insufficient training in self-discipline does tend to be genetic, since they're genetically related to their kids. Very few people have actual ADHD compared to the sheer number with behavioral issues and impulse control.
I assume it's the same genes for Ritalin and amphetamine addiction? My wife recently managed to get diagnosed ADHD, over my objections and concerns about her primary "never took a course in its life" so-called "psychotherapist" who explained exactly how to scam the psychiatrist.
ADHD is a learning disorder. Thus, the last sentence should read, " including speech and other learning disabilities, depression, and schizophrenia."
Everyone loves to knock ADHD because so many doctors use it as a catch-all and overdiagnose it. It is pretty poorly defined. But if you meet somebody who *really* has it you see it is debilitating. There are adults who pee their pants on tbe way to the bathroom because they get distracted along the way. Or who can't get to school or work on time because they put on one shoe then get distracted and forget to put on the other. Who don't eat well because they stare for hours at any screen they pass. Some off them look like they have Parkinsons disease because they can't stop moving.
So why has there an ADHD epidemic?
My feeling is this will turn out to be epigenetics at work, the genes have existed for a long time, but environmental factors are bring them into expression, in my day we went out, we tired ourselves out, today suffers all seem to be locked in all day playing computer games by concerned parents
Hey! Can we just have our transporter plates already?
DO NOT rob your child of what makes them special. ADHD is an asset, not a defect. I hold a key position at a Fortune 500 company, and could not do my job if I did not have ADHD.
'ADHD' is not a verifiable condition in any way shape or form.
No, society is fine with ADHD. School isn't. The "symptom" of not sitting still all day is often highly rewarded in the workplace.
Fuck you, die in a fire.
A stack of flashcards has made my memory better than most normal people. It's all about identifying your issues and handling them.
Dammit! Stop interrupting me!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
In this new era, ADHD is really coming into its own. It forces you to learn to process/simplify data faster, encourages the creation of external systems of organization and enables hyper-focus on areas of interest. These areas of interest may seem tangential at times, but relativity is the law of reality. Or as Dirk Gently might put it, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
They can do that kind of stuff now yeah?
I have the opposite, I am a normal person, based on nothing every happens to me, I get stuff done slower than others, I am intelligent, but think too deep about stuff.
But I would like to be more hyper and have my brain think faster and be less agreeable with people.
I guess I can take Speed, but I don't do drugs.
So how can I speed up my thinking and doing of stuff, be a little more ADD.
Often the parents have entirely undiagnosed, unmanaged ADHD so unless they consider their kid to be the most interesting part of their lives they're not going to give their kid any kind of direction. So their home lives will be unstructured, never time to do homework, never time to clean, never time to go to bed, brush your teeth. Instead they'll just nag their kids to do things as the thoughts pop into their heads. Stop doing what you're doing and do homework, clean the living room, forgot about brushing teeth tonight.. oh well. That's bad for kids and probably worse for kids with ADHD.
On a longer timeline they think about life milestones like retiring or sending their kids to college like they're sure things. All while they'll spend their money on stupid shit and accept that the sped teachers give the entire class work several grades below where their child tests.
All this happened to me and I was lucky enough that I liked learning on my own so I was able to do ok in college and get a STEM degree but it doesn't have to be so bad. I have a Chinese relative who was diagnosed and they sent him to a school to learn coping mechanisms. Apparently it wasn't even an unpleasant place. Then they put him back in regular classes and he went on to do very well academically.