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Identifying rare variants for genetic risk through a combined pedigree and phenotype approach: application to suicide and asthma.
Translational psychiatry - 21 Oct 2014
Darlington T M, Pimentel R, Smith K, Bakian A V, Jerominski L, Cardon J, Camp N J, Callor W B, Grey T, Singleton M, Yandell M, Renshaw P F, Yurgelun-Todd D A, Gray D, Coon H
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Suicidal behavior is a complex disorder, with evidence for genetic risk independent of other genetic risk factors including psychiatric disorders. Since 1996, over 3000 DNA samples from Utah suicide decedents have been collected and banked for research use through the Utah Medical Examiner. In addition, over 12,000 Utah suicides were identified through examination of death certificates back to 1904. By linking...
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