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Consistency of immigrant and country-of-birth suicide rates: a meta-analysis.

Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 1 Oct 2008

Voracek M, Loibl L M

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OBJECTIVE: Multifaceted evidence (family, twin, adoption, molecular genetic, geographic and surname studies of suicide) suggests genetic risk factors for suicide. Migrant studies are also informative in this context, but underused. In particular, a meta-analysis of the associations of immigrant (IMM) and country-of-birth (COB) suicide rates is unavailable. METHOD: Thirty-three studies, reporting IMM suicide rates...

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PMID: 18691336
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01238.x

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