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The Cardiff sib-pair study: suicidal ideation in depressed and healthy subjects and their siblings.
Crisis - 1 Jan 2001
Farmer A, Redman K, Harris T, Webb R, Mahmood A, Sadler S, McGuffin P
Abstract excerpt
Depression is associated with high rates of suicidal ideation, which varies in intensity from transient thoughts of wishing to be dead to the making of plans and, Finally, to attempts to kill oneself. There is limited evidence from family, twin, and adoption studies that completed suicide is familial and has a genetic etiological component. However, it is unclear whether suicidal ideation is also familial. The...
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