Consistency of immigrant suicide rates in Austria with country-of-birth suicide rates: A role for genetic risk factors for suicide?

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 170, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 286-289

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Dervic, Kanita ^b   Kapusta, Nestor D ^b   Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas ^c   Sonneck, Gernot ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austria; Genetic epidemiology; Genetics; Immigrants; Migrant study; Risk factors; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; EUROPE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE; TWINS;

ASSOCIATION; AUSTRIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION GROUPS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 70449521470     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.10.032     Document Type: Article

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