title: Pre- and Perinatal Ischemia-Hypoxia, the Ischemia-Hypoxia Response Pathway, and ADHD Risk.
abstract: This review focuses on how measured pre- and perinatal environmental and (epi)genetic risk factors are interrelated and potentially influence one, of many, common developmental pathway towards ADHD. Consistent with the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis, lower birth weight is associated with increased ADHD risk. Prenatal ischemia-hypoxia (insufficient blood and oxygen supply in utero) is a primary pathway to lower birth weight and produces neurodevelopmental risk for ADHD. To promote tissue survival in the context of ischemia-hypoxia, ischemia-hypoxia response (IHR) pathway gene expression is altered in the developing brain and peripheral tissues. Although altered IHR gene expression is adaptive in the context of ischemia-hypoxia, lasting IHR epigenetic modifications may lead to increased ADHD risk. Taken together, IHR genetic vulnerability to ischemia-hypoxia and IHR epigenetic alterations following prenatal ischemia-hypoxia may result in neurodevelopmental vulnerability for ADHD. Limitations of the extant literature and future directions for genetically-informed research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Child Development, California Polytechnic State University, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407, USA. tsmith82@calpoly.edu.|Division of Behavioral Genetics, Rhode Island Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. tsmith82@calpoly.edu.
authors.forename: Taylor F
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9620-7492
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Integrated Medical Science Department, CE Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Boca Raton, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Rainald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Kastner
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Genetics, Rhode Island Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.|Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: McGeary
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Child Development, California Polytechnic State University, 1 Grand Ave., San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kaczorowski
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Genetics, Rhode Island Hospital and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Valerie S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Knopik
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D001724:Birth Weight; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000150:complications*; D009420:Nervous System / Q000254:growth & development; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: ADHD; Developmental pathway; Epigenetic; Hypoxia; Ischemia; Prenatal