About Us

ADHD-PGC 

The ADHD workgroup was formed in 1998 with funding from a conference grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. We have been part of the PGC since its inception. During that time, our membership has grown to include 106 investigators from 29 institutions and 14 countries. We seek to understand the etiology of ADHD and its persistence into adulthood.

Our interdisciplinary membership includes graduate and postdoctoral trainees in psychiatric genetics as well as distinguished faculty in psychology, psychiatry, biostatistics, bioinformatics and genetics. Working together we have documented the existence of copy number variants, genomewide significant common variants and a polygenic background that mediate the risk for ADHD (seebPublications section). Our current goals are to increase the number of ADHD samples with genomewide association data and to extend our work into genome/exome sequencing.

If you are a member of the ADHD workgroup and have questions about a specific analysis or if you are interested in joining an ongoing project, please contact the investigator leading that project.