ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2014
Evidence for shared genetic risk between ADHD symptoms and reduced mathematics ability: a twin study.
Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02827188 (Cognitive Restructuring in ADHD), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and mathematical ability: current findings and future implications.BMC medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- The Differential Relations Between ADHD and Reading Comprehension: A Quantile Regression and Quantile Genetic Approach.Behavior genetics · 2021Article
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- A Developmental Study of Mathematics in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or Typical Development.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- The contribution of common genetic risk variants for ADHD to a general factor of childhood psychopathology.Molecular psychiatry · 2020Article
- A Meta-Analytical Review of the Genetic and Environmental Correlations between Reading and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Reading and Math.Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading · 2020Article
- Genetic and environmental aetiologies of associations between dispositional mindfulness and ADHD traits: a population-based twin study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- The developmental course of inattention symptoms predicts academic achievement due to shared genetic aetiology: a longitudinal twin study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Assessing the evidence for shared genetic risks across psychiatric disorders and traits.Psychological medicine · 2018Review
- Gene-Environment Interactions in ADHD: The Roles of SES and Chaos.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2018Article
- Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities: The Past and the Future.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2017Review
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Low Educational Achievement: Evidence Supporting A Causal Hypothesis.Behavior genetics · 2017Article
- Limited Near and Far Transfer Effects of Jungle Memory Working Memory Training on Learning Mathematics in Children with Attentional and Mathematical Difficulties.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and mathematics ability are associated, but little is known about the genetic and environmental influences underlying this association.
methodsData came from more than 6,000 twelve-year-old twin pairs from the UK population-representative Twins Early Development Study. Parents rated each twin's behaviour using a DSM-IV-based 18-item questionnaire of inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD symptoms. Mathematics tests based on the UK National Curriculum were completed by each twin. The twins also completed standardised tests of reading and general cognitive ability. Multivariate twin model fitting was applied.
resultsInattentive and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD symptoms were highly heritable (67% and 73% respectively). Mathematics ability was moderately heritable (46%). Mathematics ability and inattentiveness showed a significantly greater phenotypic correlation (r(p) = -.26) and genetic correlation (r(A) = -.41) than mathematics ability and hyperactivity-impulsivity (r(p) = -.18; r(A) = -.22). The genetic correlation between inattentiveness and mathematics ability was largely independent from hyperactivity-impulsivity, and was only partially accounted for by genetic influences related to reading and general cognitive ability.
conclusionsResults revealed the novel finding that mathematics ability shows significantly stronger phenotypic and genetic associations with inattentiveness than with hyperactivity-impulsivity. Genetic associations between inattentiveness and mathematics ability could only partially be accounted for by hyperactivity-impulsivity, reading and general cognitive ability. Results suggest that mathematics ability is associated with ADHD symptoms largely because it shares genetic risk factors with inattentiveness, and provide further evidence for considering inattentiveness and hyperactivity-impulsivity separately. DNA markers for ADHD symptoms (especially inattentiveness) may also be candidate risk factors for mathematics ability and vice versa.
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