Genetic factors in suicide: Reassessment of adoption studies and individuals' beliefs about adoption study findings

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 139-153

  Voracek, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adoption study; Beliefs in the Inheritance of Risk Factors for Suicide Scale (BIRFSS); Cross cultural comparisons; Genetic epidemiology; Genetics; Lay theories; Meta analysis; Psychiatric genetics; Risk factors; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOOD DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BELIEF; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TWINS;

ADOPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 34948825990     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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