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A genome-wide association study of suicide severity scores in bipolar disorder.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Jun 2015
Zai Clement C, Gonçalves Vanessa F, Tiwari Arun K, Gagliano Sarah A, Hosang Georgina, de Luca Vincenzo, Shaikh Sajid A, King Nicole, Chen Qian, Xu Wei, Strauss John, Breen Gerome, Lewis Cathryn M, Farmer Anne E, McGuffin Peter, Knight Jo, Vincent John B, Kennedy James L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Suicide claims one million lives worldwide annually, making it a serious public health concern. The risk for suicidal behaviour can be partly explained by genetic factors, as suggested by twin and family studies (reviewed in (Zai et al. 2012)). Recently, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of suicide attempt on large samples of bipolar disorder (BD) patients from multiple sites have identified a...
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