Parental schizophrenia and increased offspring suicide risk: Exploring the causal hypothesis using cousin comparisons

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 581-590

  Ljung, T ^a   Lichtenstein, P ^a   Sandin, S ^a   D'Onofrio, B ^b   Runeson, B ^a   Langstrom N ^a   Larsson, H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

familial confounding; Key words Environmental risk; nationwide registers; parental schizophrenia; suicidal behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGISTER; RISK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGISTRIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873350121     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291712001365     Document Type: Article

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