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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Review Open Access The IMAGE project: methodological issues for the molecular genetic analysis of ADHD 1 1 1 2 Jonna Kuntsi* , Benjamin M Neale , Wai Chen , Stephen V Faraone and Philip Asherson1 Address: 1MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK and 2SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams St., Syracuse, NY 13210, USA Email: Jonna Kuntsi* - j.kuntsi@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Benjamin M Neale - b.neale@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Wai Chen - w.chen@iop.kcl.ac.uk; Stephen V Faraone - faraones@; Philip Asherson - p.asherson@iop.kcl.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 03 August 2006 Received: 07 February 2006 Accepted: 03 August 2006 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2006, 2:27 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-2-27 This article is available from: /content/2/1/27 © 2006 Kuntsi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The genetic mechanisms involved in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are being studied with considerable success by several centres worldwide. These studies confirm prior hypotheses about the role of genetic