Genetic contributions to suicidal thoughts and behaviors

E DiBlasi, J Kang, AR Docherty - Psychological medicine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Suicidal ideation, suicide attempt (SA) and suicide are significantly heritable phenotypes.
However, the extent to which these phenotypes share genetic architecture is unclear. This …

Biological factors underpinning suicidal behaviour: an update

MN Abou Chahla, MI Khalil, S Comai, L Brundin… - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Suicide, a global health burden, represents the 17th leading cause of death worldwide
(1.3%), but the 4th among young people aged between 15 and 29 years of age, according to …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders, and known risk factors

N Mullins, JE Kang, AI Campos, JRI Coleman… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, and nonfatal suicide attempts,
which occur far more frequently, are a major source of disability and social and economic …

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of suicide death and suicidal behavior

QS Li, AA Shabalin, E DiBlasi, S Gopal… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Suicide is a worldwide health crisis. We aimed to identify genetic risk variants associated
with suicide death and suicidal behavior. Meta-analysis for suicide death was performed …

Identification of potential blood biomarkers associated with suicide in major depressive disorder

F Mamdani, MD Weber, B Bunney, K Burke… - Translational …, 2022 - nature.com
Suicides have increased to over 48,000 deaths yearly in the United States. Major depressive
disorder (MDD) is the most common diagnosis among suicides, and identifying those at the …

Genome-wide association study of suicide death and polygenic prediction of clinical antecedents

AR Docherty, AA Shabalin, E DiBlasi… - American journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Death by suicide is a highly preventable yet growing worldwide health crisis. To
date, there has been a lack of adequately powered genomic studies of suicide, with no …

Polygenic risk score as clinical utility in psychiatry: a clinical viewpoint

M Ikeda, T Saito, T Kanazawa, N Iwata - Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have detected many susceptible variants for
common diseases, including psychiatric disorders. However, because of the small effect size …

Genetics and epigenetics of self‐injurious thoughts and behaviors: Systematic review of the suicide literature and methodological considerations

S Mirza, AR Docherty, A Bakian, H Coon… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Suicide is a multifaceted and poorly understood clinical outcome, and there is an urgent
need to advance research on its phenomenology and etiology. Epidemiological studies …

Increased somatic mosaicism in autosomal and X chromosomes for suicide death

I Otsuka, S Uchiyama, T Shirai, X Liu… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) are classified as mosaic deletions (loss), copy-
neutral loss of heterozygosity (CN-LOH), and duplications (gain), attracting special attention …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-stratified gene-by-environment genome-wide interaction study of trauma, posttraumatic-stress, and suicidality

FR Wendt, GA Pathak, DF Levey, YZ Nuñez… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Epidemiologic studies recognize that trauma and posttraumatic stress are associated with
heightened suicidal behavior severity, yet examination of these associations from a genetic …