Genome-wide association studies identify polygenic effects for completed suicide in the Japanese population - Otsuka I, Akiyama M, Shirakawa O, Okazaki S, Momozawa Y, Kamatani Y, Izumi T, Numata S, Takahashi M, Boku S, Sora I, Yamamoto K, Ueno Y, Toda T, Kubo M, Hishimoto A.

Suicide is a significant public health problem worldwide, and several Asian countries including Japan have relatively high suicide rates on a world scale. Twin, family, and adoption studies have suggested high heritability for suicide, but genetics lags be...
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