Are there genetic factors in suicide?
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Review of Psychiatry
- Vol. 4 (2) , 169-175
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09540269209066314
Abstract
There are generally considered to be five lines of evidence about the possibility that there may be genetic factors in suicide. This paper will review the clinical, Iowa-500, Amish, twin and adoption studies which provide evidence about this possibility.Keywords
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