Ancestry, genes, and suicide: A test of the finno-ugrian suicide hypothesis in the United States

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 543-550

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE POOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; RISK; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE POOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; RISK; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846206540     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.103.2.543-550     Document Type: Article

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