Genetic and familial environmental effects on suicide--an adoption study of siblings.

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 sibli...

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Main Authors: Liselotte Petersen, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Per Kragh Andersen, Preben Bo Mortensen, Keith Hawton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3798411?pdf=render