Our Japanese patent on ADHD SNP granted [11.18]

Post date: Mar 10, 2016 2:41:07 AM

A patent for usage of a SNP associated with ADHD risk was granted from the Japanese Patent Agency on November 18, 2014. A downregulation allele of a GIT1 SNP was discoved to associate with ADHD risk in our lab and GIT1-knockout mice were demostrated to show several ADHD phenotypes in Prof. KIM Eunjoon's lab, which were together published in Nature Medicine in 2011.