Article
Significant shared heritability underlies suicide attempt and clinically predicted probability of attempting suicide
2018-02-15
Abstract excerpt
Suicide accounts for nearly 800,000 deaths per year worldwide with rates of both deaths and attempts rising. Family studies have estimated substantial heritability of suicidal behavior; however, collecting the sample sizes necessary for successful genetic studies has remained a challenge. We utilized two different approaches in independent datasets to characterize the contribution of common genetic variation to su...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e4e54ae-90e8-59d1-bdb0-f5a62d42a669
- DOI
- 10.1101/266411
