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Genetic and familial environmental effects on suicide--an adoption study of siblings.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Petersen Liselotte, Sørensen Thorkild I A, Andersen Per Kragh, Mortensen Preben Bo, Hawton Keith
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: While there is clear evidence of familial influences on suicide, the origin of these is less certain. We have investigated genetic and familial environmental factors by studying the occurrence of suicide in biological and adoptive siblings of adoptees who died by suicide compared to siblings of surviving adoptees. METHOD: We used the Danish Adoption Register and Danish population registers to compare...
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