Green, PhD, and Samuel P.
Byrd, Ph.D., both of Harvard Medical School, in collaboration with the Broad Institute’s Jacoby Child Health.
They reported finding genetic liability in a subgroup of individuals with ADHD.The researchers found ethylmelon naphthate, an amino acid found in about half of the Western diet, to be an important genetic carrier for cognitive impairment, a neurological disorder involving impaired vision that commonly accompanies aging.