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Suicide and serotonin: study of variation at seven serotonin receptor genes in suicide completers.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Apr 2003
Turecki G, Sequeira A, Gingras Y, Séguin M, Lesage A, Tousignant M, Chawky N, Vanier C, Lipp O, Benkelfat C, Rouleau G A
Abstract excerpt
Suicide is an important public health problem, accounting for a significant proportion of total mortality among young people, particularly males. There is growing and consistent evidence suggesting that genetic factors play an important role in the predisposition to suicide. Based on several lines of evidence supporting a reduced serotonergic neurotransmission in subjects who committed suicide, we investigated...
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